Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of <i>Doctor Zhivago,</i> composed one of the world's great love poems in <i>My Sister - Life.</i> Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution.<br> <br> <br> <br> Osip Mandelstam wrote: "To read the poems of Pasternak is to get one's throat clear, to fortify one's breathing. . . . I see Pasternak's <i>My Sister - Life</i> as a collection of magnificent exercises in breathing . . . a cure for tuberculosis." This English translation, rendered with verve and intelligence by Mark Rudman, is a heady gust that matches the intensity and power of the original Russian text.
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