Selected Poems, 1968-1996

Author

Joseph Brodsky

Original Works

A Stop in a Desert·The End of a Beautiful Era

Translators

Jonathan Aaron·Paul Graves·Anthony Hecht·George L. Kline·Howard Moss·Jane Ann Miller·Alan Myers·Derek Walcott·Daniel Weissbort·Richard Wilbur

Editor

Ann Kjellberg

Foreword / Afterword

Ann Kjellberg

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

2020

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Country

United States

Pages

185

ISBN

978-0374600365

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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 surveys Brodsky’s tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.— Google Books