Selected Poems
1968-1996
$29.55
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2020
Summary
Self-educated, intense, impulsive, and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented – “to set the next man – however theoretical he and his needs may be – a bit more free.”
This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Ri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241464823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024146482X |
| Author: | Joseph Brodsky, Ann Kjellberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) went 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. He was the author of three books of poems in English, six books of poems in Russian, and three books of essays in English.
Ann Kjellberg is the literary executor of Joseph Brodsky.
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