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, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life....
The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation,...
'Less Than One' is Joseph Brodsky's penetrating appreciation of his favourite writers. It also includes evocations of his early life, profound reflections on tyranny and the nature of Evil, and illuminating meditations on Leningrad and Istanbul.
'Less Than One' is Joseph Brodsky's penetrating appreciation of his favourite writers. It also includes evocations of his early life, profound reflect...
Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, visited Venice many times, usually in winter. In 48 short chapters, Watermark provides an account of his experiences of the city.
Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, visited Venice many times, usually in winter. In 48 short chapters, Watermark provid...
'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book Review 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...
'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book Review Self-educated, intense, impulsiv...
