Collected Poems in English

Collected Poems in English

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-04

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0374528381

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With nearly 200 poems, several of them never before published in book form, this is the essential volume of the Nobel Laureate's work.


Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Author: Lev Losev

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 030014119X

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Originally published: Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2006, under title Iosif Brodskii: Opyt literaturnoi biografii.


Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation

Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation

Author: Natasha Rulyova

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1501363948

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Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation is the first in-depth archival study to scrutinize the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky's self-translation practices during the period of his exile to the USA in 1972-1996. The book draws on a large amount of previously unpublished archival material, including the poet's manuscripts in Russian and English, draft translations, notes, comments in the margins and correspondence with his translators, editors and friends. Rulyova's approach to the study of self-translation is informed by 'social turn' in translation studies. She focuses on the process of text production, the agents and institutions involved, translation practices and the role played by translators and publishers in the production of the text.


Less Than One

Less Than One

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 0374520550

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Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.


So Forth

So Forth

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998-03-04

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780374525538

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Joseph Brodsky's last volume of poems in English represents eight years of masterful self-translation from the Russian, as well as a substantial body of work written directly in English.


A Part of Speech

A Part of Speech

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0374516332

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A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.


On Grief and Reason

On Grief and Reason

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0374525099

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"On Grief and Reason c"ollects the essays Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The volume includes his Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate DonGiovanni; his "Immodest Proposal" for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost; Brodsky's searching estimations of Hardy, Horace, and Rilke; and an affecting memoir of Stephen Spender.


Nativity Poems

Nativity Poems

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-11-13

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0374528578

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Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar. He was but a dot, and a dot was the star. --from "Star of the Nativity" Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as "a Christian by correspondence," endeavored from the time he "first took to writing poems seriously," to write a poem for every Christmas. He said in an interview: "What is remarkable about Christmas? The fact that what we're dealing with here is the calculation of life--or, at the very least, existence--in the consciousness of an individual, a specific individual." He continued, "I liked that concentration of everything in one place--which is what you have in that cave scene." There resulted a remarkable sequence of poems about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention. In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.


Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781578065288

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Biography -- Literary Criticism Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable reinvention from a brilliant, brash, but decidedly provincial Leningrad poet to an international man of letters and an erudite Nobel Prize laureate. Brodsky's poetry earned him a Nobel, and his essays won him awards and international acclaim. This volume shows that there was a third medium, in addition to poetry and essays, in which Brodsky excelled--the interview. Although he said that "in principle prose is simply spilling some beans, which poetry sort of contains in a tight pod," he nevertheless emerges as an extraordinary and inventive conversationalist. This volume includes not only his notable interviews that helped consolidate Brodsky's international reputation but also early and hard-to-find interviews in journals that have since disappeared. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Cortland Review, and Stanford Magazine. Her work also has been published in Civilization, the Washington Post, and the Georgia Review.