1994
| So Forth, Joseph Brodsky's first collection of poems since To Urania (1988), gathers together some four dozen of the Nobel laurete's peoms. Some have been translated by the author and other hands from his native Russian, and others were written in English. |
1988
| Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, To Urania was Brodsky's third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, this collection features pieces translated by the poet himself and others, as well as poems written originally in English. Auden once characterized Brodsky as "a traditionalist . . . interested in what lyric poets of all ages have been interested in . . . encounters with nature . . ....[more] |
1999
| Discover . . . a never-before-published poem for children by the acclaimed poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. And rediscover . . . an America huge and silent and full of secrets still waiting to be discovered. Full-color illustrations. |
1980
| 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 logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely phys....[more] |
1980
| "A Part of Speech" contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands. |
1974
| In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapterseach recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years)Watermark associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's architectural and atmospheric character. In doing so, the book also reveals a subjectand an authorreaders have never bef....[more] |
1968
| The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, an....[more] |
1997
| Joseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation. He was right, I think, though you had to wonder when you saw how badly his own work fared in English. But then perhaps the Russians hadn't expelled a great poet so much as exposed us to one of their virulent personality cults. Yet Brodsky's essays are interesting. Composed in a rather heroically determined English, clumsily phrased and idiomatically challenged....[more] |
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