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Letters: Summer 1926 brings together the correspondence of Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak, three major poetic voices of the twentieth century. Their letters create an intimate meeting place where literary admiration, friendship and romantic longing become inseparable.

Separated by borders and contrasting circumstances, the poets discover an extraordinary closeness through words. Their exchange goes far beyond personal news, becoming a discussion of poetry, solitude, language and the desire to have one’s inner world understood. Moments of enthusiasm and misunderstanding reveal the fragile boundary between the actual correspondent and the imagined figure addressed on the page.

The letters can be read both as literature and as personal testimony. Their rhythm, imagery and emotional immediacy often approach prose poetry, while everyday details reveal the vulnerable individuals behind celebrated names. Mortality lends the exchange particular poignancy: 1926 was the final year of Rilke’s life.

An editorial introduction provides the background to this remarkable correspondence. The collection will appeal to readers of modern poetry, literary letters and biography, as well as anyone interested in the power of language to bridge distance and create an intimacy that can exceed a meeting in person.