Collected Poems in English

Collected Poems in English PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528381
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 565

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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.

Collected Poems in English

Collected Poems in English PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528381
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 565

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Book Description
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 PDF Author: Lev Losev
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030014119X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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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 PDF Author: Natasha Rulyova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501363948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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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 The book draws on a large amount of previously unpublished archival material, including the poet's manuscripts in Russian and English, draft translations, notes, comments in the margins and correspondence with his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 PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374520550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 517

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

Nativity Poems

Nativity Poems PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528578
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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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.

So Forth

So Forth PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374525538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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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.

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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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.

On Grief and Reason

On Grief and Reason PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525099
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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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.

A Part of Speech

A Part of Speech PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374516332
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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

Selected Poems, 1968–1996

Selected Poems, 1968–1996 PDF Author: Joseph Brodsky
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374600376
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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A career-spanning collection of poetry from the Russian American author and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature. 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.