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Selected Poems, 1968–1996
About this book
A career-spanning collection of poetry from the Russian American author and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling." The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, they represent the project that, as Brodsky said, the "condition we call exile" presented: "to set the next man—however theoretical he and his needs may be—a bit more free."
This edition, edited and introduced by Brodsky's literary executor, Ann Kjellberg, includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. Selected Poems, 1968–1996 surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.
Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling." The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, they represent the project that, as Brodsky said, the "condition we call exile" presented: "to set the next man—however theoretical he and his needs may be—a bit more free."
This edition, edited and introduced by Brodsky's literary executor, Ann Kjellberg, includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. Selected Poems, 1968–1996 surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Introduction by Ann Kjellberg
- A Note on the Text
- Six Years Later
- I Sit by the Window
- Lithuanian Divertissement
- Nature Morte
- The Funeral of Bobò
- Nunc Dimittis
- An autumn evening in the modest square
- In the Lake District
- The Butterfly
- Lagoon
- A Part of Speech
- In England
- Plato Elaborated
- Letters from the Ming Dynasty
- May 24, 1980
- A Polar Explorer
- Dutch Mistress
- The Hawk’s Cry in Autumn
- Sextet
- Roman Elegies
- To Urania
- Seven Strophes
- Eclogue IV: Winter
- The Fly
- In Memoriam
- A Song
- A Footnote to Weather Forecasts
- Star of the Nativity
- In Memory of My Father: Australia
- Epitaph for a Centaur
- Vertumnus
- Transatlantic
- Daedalus in Sicily
- Clouds
- Portrait of Tragedy
- Törnfallet
- Homage to Chekhov
- A Tale
- View with a Flood
- Ischia in October
- In Front of Casa Marcello
- Reveille
- To My Daughter
- MCMXCV
- Flourish
- Taps
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- Also by Joseph Brodsky
- About the Author and Editor
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright