Poor Isadora. What a way to go. I always make sure my fringe scarves are held flat agaist my chest when getting on the subway. Horrible death.
A tragic life all the way. Two children were killed in a car accident, another died shortly after birth.
Her husband the Russian poet Yesinen hung himself in a hotel room two years before her death.
If you've never seen them the early collection of poems by the American poet Jim Harrison, 'Letters to Yesinen,' are extraordinary.