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1	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! \| SVS
2	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 $1.99! new only from $2.64! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Conversations with Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through the Twentieth Century more books like this by Solomon Volkov add to wishlist A comprehensive portrait of Nobel Laureate, Joseph Brodsky, based on the author's tape-recorded conversations with the poet over a period of 15 years. From imprisonment in the Soviet Union and flight to the West, to a new beginning in the United States, Brodsky's life was epic in scope. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 $8.99! \| first editions
6	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
7	Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse more books like this by David Macfadyen add to wishlist Research concerning Joseph Brodsky has emphasised two aspects of his work - his poetry and philosophy as an exile from the Soviet Union. The resulting scholarship has presented him as a fundamentally dissident author with little or no positive connection to the social and literary environments in which he spent more than half his life. In "Joseph ... see all copies from $23.08! new only from $72.25!
8	Styles of Ruin: Joseph Brodsky and the Postmodernist Elegy more books like this by David Rigsbee add to wishlist This volume analyzes the key elegies of the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky and investigates the role of elegiac thinking in postmodernist poetics. It demonstrates that Brodsky saw language as both the origin and the final repository of values and truths. see all copies from $91.00! new only from $92.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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
10	Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem more books like this by Lev Loseff (Editor), Lev Losev (Editor), Valentina Polukhina (Editor) add to wishlist Thirteen critics each elucidate one poem in this study of Brodsky's technique. see all copies from $33.93! new only from $120.78! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Joseph Brodsky: Leningrad: Fragments more books like this by Mikhail Lemkhin add to wishlist The Nobel Prize-winning poet writes poetic fragments about the city of his birth, Leningrad; they are accompanied by 186 evocative photographs of the city by Mikhail Lemkhin. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $80.55! \| first editions
12 view cover	Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time more books like this by Valentina Polukhina add to wishlist The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded increasing attention among both Russian specialists and a wider audience interested in modern culture. In 1987 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book, the first in English to be devoted entirely to him, presents a sustained and comprehensive analysis of his work to date, ... see all copies from $37.90! new only from $37.90! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 more books like this by Valentina Polukhina add to wishlist Joseph Brodsky's greatness as a poet has to do with his expectation that life measure up to the demands of art and not vice versa. These conversations show that his friendship has an equally heightening and challenging effect upon his gifted contemporaries. Brodsky emerges as a kind of one-man ozone layer, protecting and enhancing the possibility ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $39.43! \| SVS
14 view cover	Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. 2 more books like this by Valentina Polukhina add to wishlist Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders: Khrushchev sent him to the Gulag (1964), Brezhnev exiled him (1972), Gorbachev paid him a visit in the Library of Congress (1992), and Chernomyrdin demanded that his body be returned to Russia (1996). He is the most important poet Russia has ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $46.65! \| SVS
15 view cover	Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile more books like this by David M Bethea add to wishlist Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of his poetic world are still insufficiently understood by Western audiences. How did the Russian-born Brodsky arrive at his present status as an ... see all copies from $11.90! new only from $86.05!
16	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
17 view cover	Joseph Brodsky: A Personal Memoir more books like this by Ludmila Shtern, Liudmila Shtern add to wishlist Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration. Includes never before published poems and numerous photographs. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Conversations with Joseph Brodsky more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L Haven (Editor) 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 $22.50! first editions
19	Poetika Brodskogo: Sbornik Statei more books like this by Lev Losev add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00!
20	Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries more books like this by Valentina Polukhina add to wishlist This is a report of 10 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1987. The book combines biographical details with a summary of the poetics, style and ideas of Brodsky - one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. His position in Russian literature is ... see all copies from $135.00!
21	A Concordance to the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky more books like this by T Patera add to wishlist This Concordance by Dr. Patera is designed to assist Brodsky specialists and students of Russian poetry, deepening their understanding of one of the most important poets of our time whose works are now an indispensable part of the curriculum of many American and European universities. It will also alert us to the complexity of Brodsky's linguistic ... see all copies from $34.50! new only from $97.00!
22	To Urania more books like this by Joseph Brodsky add to wishlist see all copies from $7.20! first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque more books like this by David Ward Macfadyen add to wishlist Alarmed by a critic's description of Joseph Brodsky as "the new Elvis Presley of world literature", David MacFadyen sets out to rid the poet of the stereotypes imposed by "superficial" readers. Of these, the most irritating for Brodsky is that he languished away from "home", though he turned down invitations to return after 1991. MacFadyen ... see all copies from $23.50! new only from $72.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets more books like this by Irena Grudzinska Gross, Irena Grudzinska-Gross add to wishlist This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, ... see all copies from $30.94! new only from $30.94! \| SVS
25	Brodskii glazami sovremennikov = Brodsky through the eyes of his contemporaries more books like this by Valentina Polukhina add to wishlist see all copies from $25.90!

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