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1	Osip Mandelstam: 50 Poems more books like this by Mandelstam Osip, Bernard Meares (Translator), Joseph Brodsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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 see all copies from $2.82! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Collected Poems in English more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.82! new only from $7.01! \| first editions \| SVS
3	On Grief and Reason: Essays more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.65! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Conversations with Joseph Brodsky more books like this by Cynthia L Haven (Editor), Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $12.47! new only from $12.47!
6	So Forth more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist Brodsky's first new collection of poems since TO URANIA (1988) gathers together four dozen recent poems. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $14.54! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Less Than One: Selected Essays more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $7.74! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Watermark more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.46! new only from $2.91! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Russia: A Portrait more books like this by Lev Poliakov, Joseph Brodsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.06! new only from $99.74! \| first editions
10	Discovery more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Vladimir Radunsky (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
11 view cover	Campidoglio:: Michelangelo's Roman Capital more books like this by Alexander Liberman, Joseph Brodsky, Sharon DeLano (Editor) add to wishlist Stunning photographs of one of the great architectural achievements of the Renaissance. see all copies from $8.96! new only from $15.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	To Urania: Poems more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lemkhin (Photographer) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $2.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Winter Dialogue more books like this by Tomas Venclova, Diana Senechal (Translator), Joseph Brodsky (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.27! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Nativity Poems more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| first editions
16 view cover	A part of speech more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938 more books like this by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Joseph Brodsky (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Essential Hardy more books like this by Joseph Brodsky (Editor), Thomas Hardy add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.80!
19 view cover	So Forth: Poems more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist Brodsky's first new collection of poems since TO URANIA (1988) gathers together four dozen recent poems. see all copies from $2.26! new only from $5.82! \| first editions
20 view cover	This Prison Where I Live: The Penn Anthology of Imprisoned Writers more books like this by Siobhan Dowd (Editor), Joseph Brodsky (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.20!
21	Selected Poems, more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.19! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Less Than One more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.00! first editions
23 view cover	Marbles: A Play in Three Acts more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Alan Myers (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $8.82! \| SVS
24	Ufer Der Verlorenen by Jörg; Brodsky Trobitius, Joseph add to wishlist see all copies from $31.17! new only from $31.17!
25	Brodsky, the Selected Poetry of more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $11.00! first editions

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