Selected Poems, 1968-1996
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Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
Where are the essays?
Nobel Prize winner in Literature and all they have is one collection of poems and a biography. Shameful. Where does the work of such great writers go in the digital age if it is not to be forgotten?
Lovely and beautiful
For sure that’s been said, but I wish you release the essays books(less than one,on grief and reason), here as fast as possible.
Waiting you..