Elaine Feinstein's translation of 'Rails' by Marina Tsvetaeva is Poem of the Week in the TLS. Click here to read the poem on the TLS website.

'Rails' is taken from Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. 'What drew me to her initially,' she writes, 'was the intensity of her emotions, and the honesty with which she exposed them.' Her translations, first published to great acclaim in 1971, introduced Tsvetaeva to English readers. It was the start of Feinstein's continuing engagement with a poet who has been an enduring, challenging inspiration to her, and whose life she has written. To this enlarged edition Elaine Feinstein adds five major pieces, a new introduction, notes and a bibliography of works in English. Bride of Ice brings Tsvetaeva to a new generation of readers.

'Like numerous English readers, I owe my discovery of Tsvetaeva to the multi-talented poet and writer, Elaine Feinstein... Feinstein's translations prove that a poem can be re-born in its adoptive language.' - Carol Rumens