Description
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.Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.56w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780374600365
ISBN10: 0374600368
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) came to the United States in 1972 as an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as poet laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.