Brodsky, Joseph 1940-1996

Less than one : selected essays by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
66 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in 13 languages and held by 1,471 libraries worldwide
Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.

Collected poems in English by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
12 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 1,345 libraries worldwide

To Urania by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
20 editions published between 1988 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,286 libraries worldwide

So forth : poems by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
12 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,246 libraries worldwide
A collection of sixty-four poems by the former United States Poet Laureate and the winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.

A part of speech by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
44 editions published between 1976 and 2010 in Russian and English and held by 1,198 libraries worldwide

Homage to Robert Frost by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
7 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,082 libraries worldwide
Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy.

On grief and reason : essays by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
16 editions published between 1994 and 1998 in English and held by 956 libraries worldwide
On Grief and Reason is the second volume of Joseph Brodsky's essays, and the first to be published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. In addition to his Nobel lecture, the volume includes essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the idea of the poet as an inveterate Don Giovanni, as well as a homage to Marcus Aurelius and an appraisal of the case of the double agent Kim Philby (the last two were selected for inclusion in the annual Best American Essays volume). The title essay is a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost, and the book also includes a fond appreciation of Thomas Hardy, a "Letter to Horace", a close reading of Rilke's poem "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes", and a memoir of Stephen Spender. Among the other essays are Mr. Brodsky's open letter to Czech President Vaclav Havel and his "immodest proposal" for the future of poetry, an address he delivered while serving as U.S. Poet Laureate. In his Nobel lecture, Mr. Brodsky declared that "verse really does, in Akhmatova's words, grow from rubbish; the roots of prose are no more honorable" - but his own prose's flowering in these essays gives us thought and language at their noblest.

Watermark by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
69 editions published between 1989 and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 862 libraries worldwide
Otteogfyrre små prosastykker, som tilsammen udgør et hengivent portræt af Venedig, den by forfatteren søger om vinteren.

Selected poems by Joseph Brodsky ( Book )
9 editions published between 1973 and 2007 in English and Russian and held by 830 libraries worldwide
Joseph Brodsky reading some of his poems.

Nativity poems by Иосиф Бродский ( Book )
13 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in Russian and English and held by 595 libraries worldwide
Translated from the Russian, this collection of six Christmas poems by the United States Nobel Laureate is about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention. 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. Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself "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 for the first time, in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition drawing on the Renaissance imagery that Brodsky identified as the poems' inspiration.