The Nobel Prize-winning Russian exile poet Joseph Brodsky often helped his English translators with their work, and eventually not only took over the translations himself but began writing his poems directly in English. This collection gathers together all the poems Brodsky wrote in English or helped translate into English, including some not ...
The essays here, collected posthumously, were mostly written during the period after Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1987. Included is his groundbreaking title essay on Robert Frost, in which Brodsky interprets the terror inherent in Frost's prosody; an inspiring graduation address given at the University of Michigan; and pieces about ...
A fine selection from this essential Russian poet. "One can hear Mandelstam's real voice in these translations. The nervous pure voice of his love, his memory, his culture, and his faith, waverable as a candle in the wind."--From the introduction by Joseph Brodsky
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 emigre into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an ...
This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third ...
This lyric essay is an homage to Brodsky's beloved city--Venice--where he has spent many a holiday. His travels through its winding waterways are echoed by the circuitousness of his prose.
A picture book version of a poem written for children by Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. The poem celebrates the discovery of America--first by the waves, stars, and clouds, then by the fish and the birds and--then, finally, by humans.
The eponymous Urania is the eighth muse, and is associated with astronomy and the firmament. In these poems she rules the void into which all history flows meaninglessly.
Christmas poems by the Nobel LaureateTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the teamof Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar.He was but a dot, and a dot was the star.--from "Star of the Nativity"Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as "a Christian ...
Winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature. Joseph Brodsky's second major collection contains poems from the years 1965 to 1978, translated from the Russian. Despite isolation from his native Russian culture and language since becoming an involuntary exile in 1972, Brodsky has inherited the tradition of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Pasternak. ...
Nobel Laureate and United States Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky has written dozens of poems on Christmas that have not been included in his numerous collections. Here, his Christmas poems are presented in one volume, translated into English by an eminent group of poets including Melissa Green, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, George L. Kline, Glynn ...
This collection of thirty poems may be compared to the critical essays that have made Venclova famous. Venclova's major poetic accomplishment is his linking of intimate experience and historical incident in poems that are intensely contemporary at the same time as they reach back to the ethnic roots of an entire generation. Diana Senechal's deft ...
Extraordinary claims for a dead poet are best made on the basis of his entire oeurve; as we are perusing only some of Thomas Hardy's work, we may dodge the temptation. Suffice it to say that he is one of the very few poets who, under minimal scrutiny, easily escape the past. What helps his escape is obviously the content of his poems: they are ...
Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many poems never before published, and work--some with stunning revisions--from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early ...
This collection presents the work of writers imprisoned for their political views. It features the writing of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Arthur Koestler, Yannis Ritsos, Vaclav Havel and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The anthology is published to celebrate the writers' association PEN's 75th anniversary.
A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, "Marbles," is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent ...
Compiled when the poet was 33, this selected volume presents a generous sampling of Brodsky's early verse to the English-speaking world--of which he was newly a part when this was published, having immigrated, in exile, to the United Sates in 1972. Here, George Kline, translator, preserves the meter of the original, but chose not to render the ...
In this landmark collection of essays, which Brodsky wrote in English, he contemplates poets and poetics, as well as his own autobiography, ethics, politics, and tradition. His favorite poets--Auden, Cavafy, Walcott--and others are explored.
Compiled when the poet was 33, this selected volume presents a generous sampling of Brodsky's early verse to the English-speaking world--of which he was newly a part when this was published, having immigrated, in exile, to the United Sates in 1972. Here, George Kline, translator, preserves the meter of the original, but chose not to render the ...
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