Joseph Brodsky

The author shares his impressions of Venice, Italy over the course of his many visits

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The late Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist explores a broad spectrum of topics, including the future of poetry, the nature of history, the condition of exile, the art of reading, the poetry of Robert Frost, and studies of the work of Hardy, Horace, Rilke, and Stephen Spender. Reprint.

Essays

On Grief and Reason

This collection of essays amply demonstrates the wide range of the poet's interests and includes essays on poetry, politics, and literature and his memoir of life in Leningrad

Selected Essays

Less Than One

Presents the collected English poems of the former Poet Laureate of the United States who was exiled from his native Russia, only to go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Reprint.

Collected Poems in English

Brodsky's first collection to be published since he settled in the United States as an involuntary Russian exile contains restrained, sometimes humorous, sometimes epigrammatic verses marked by serious wit and an acute sense of place

A Part of Speech

'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book Review Self-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented: 'to set the next man - however theoretical he and his needs may be - a bit more free.' This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht, and poems written in English or translated by the author himself. It surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career, and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Edited and introduced by Ann Kjellberg

1968-1996

Selected Poems

An Essay on Venice

stikhotvorenii͡a 1964-1971

Konet͡s prekrasnoĭ ėpokhi

Tussen iemand en niemand

Ann Kjellberg

Selected Poems, 1968-1996

Marca de Água

Ana Luísa Faria

Marca de água

Nesta narrativa sobre a cidade de Veneza, Joseph Brodsky realiza um exercício de imaginação poética em profundidade. Depois de passar 17 invernos de férias na cidade, ele a vê 'em preto-e-branco, como convém a algo que emerge da literatura ou do inverno'. Repleta de imagens formadas por associações bastante livres, a cidade aparece ora transfigurada em uma gigantesca orquestra, ora na leoa que protege o filhote, ou na sua versão pessoal do paraíso. Brodsky consegue produzir uma Veneza única; não um museu de história, mas um lugar que o faz sentir que nem tudo está acabado e que ainda há esperança.

Marca-d'água

Gilberto Forti

Giovanni Buttafava

Dallʼesilio

Bengt Jangfeldt

dikter 1962-1994

Kommentarer från en ormbunke

Эссе

Набережная Неисцелимых

Biography -- Literary Criticism--> Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared émigré into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable reinvention from a brilliant, brash, but decidedly provincial Leningrad poet to an international man of letters and an erudite Nobel Prize laureate. Brodsky's poetry earned him a Nobel, and his essays won him awards and international acclaim. This volume shows that there was a third medium, in addition to poetry and essays, in which Brodsky excelled--the interview. Although he said that "in principle prose is simply spilling some beans, which poetry sort of contains in a tight pod," he nevertheless emerges as an extraordinary and inventive conversationalist. This volume includes not only his notable interviews that helped consolidate Brodsky's international reputation but also early and hard-to-find interviews in journals that have since disappeared. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Cortland Review, and Stanford Magazine. Her work also has been published in Civilization, the Washington Post, and the Georgia Review.

Joseph Brodsky

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