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An Interview with Joseph Brodsky
South Central Review, 1997I came to Joseph Brodsky's work via his good friend Mikhail Baryshnikov, about whom I frequently wrote in my capacity as a freelance dance critic before enrolling in the M.A. English program at Southwest Texas State. In 1991, when Mr. Brodsky was Poet Laureate, I read his "Immodest Proposal"' suggesting that poetry, like the Bible, should be placed in ...
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The Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 2012
The present article is a memoir that recalls the author’s friendship with the Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky. The author first met Brodsky in Leningrad in 1969 while a graduate student on the US-Soviet scholarly exchange, and they remained friends until Brodsky’s death in 1996.
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The present article is a memoir that recalls the author’s friendship with the Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky. The author first met Brodsky in Leningrad in 1969 while a graduate student on the US-Soviet scholarly exchange, and they remained friends until Brodsky’s death in 1996.
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International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2005
In “Letter to Horace”, an essay published in the year before he died, Joseph Brodsky, or his narrator, describes an erotic dream-encounter with a strange body that resembles a lover's he once knew in Rome. This body represents Roman poetry, whose appeal lies in its formal excellence and historical importance, but especially Horace's, which attracts ...
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In “Letter to Horace”, an essay published in the year before he died, Joseph Brodsky, or his narrator, describes an erotic dream-encounter with a strange body that resembles a lover's he once knew in Rome. This body represents Roman poetry, whose appeal lies in its formal excellence and historical importance, but especially Horace's, which attracts ...
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Joseph Brodsky: Discovering America
The Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 2018This article examines the Nobel Laureate Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s life and work in the United States following his emigration from Russia in 1972. The article devotes particular attention to the poems and essays he wrote in emigration and his strongly held views on poetry and the poet’s craft. It also portrays his engagement with American society,
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Russian Review, 1966
. . . and Pushkin falls on bluish prickly snow. -Eduard BagritskyA silence. And no further word. An echo. And exhaustion. . . . His verses fluttered mutely to the ground, ending in blood. They gazed about them slowly, tenderly. They felt unjointed, cold, and strange. Above them stood the gray-haired doctors and the Seconds, bent and helpless.
George L. Kline, Joseph Brodsky
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. . . and Pushkin falls on bluish prickly snow. -Eduard BagritskyA silence. And no further word. An echo. And exhaustion. . . . His verses fluttered mutely to the ground, ending in blood. They gazed about them slowly, tenderly. They felt unjointed, cold, and strange. Above them stood the gray-haired doctors and the Seconds, bent and helpless.
George L. Kline, Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Brodsky’s ‘To My Daughter’
1999Joseph Brodsky is a bundle of contradictions. This statement might be problematic if he were a philosopher, but his consistent inconsistency makes perfect sense to those studying his primary status - that of poet. Stoic toward the arbitrariness of the world order (or disorder), deeply melancholic (if not corrosively sceptical) about ‘human nature’, yet
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Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque
Choice Reviews Online, 2000Victor Terras, David MacFadyen
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