Letters: Summer 1926 is a short exchange of letters among three poets, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Rainer Maria Rilke, written over a few months. Rilke was living in Switzerland, Tsvetaeva was in exile in France, and Pasternak was in Russia, so the correspondence crosses borders at a difficult time. The letters are intense and personal, full of admiration, longing and talk about the nature of poetry and creative life. They give readers a close view of three major writers thinking aloud about art, friendship and distance.