{"title":"Joseph Brodsky","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"collected-poems-in-english","title":"Collected Poems in English","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky's work.","brand":"Joseph Brodsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793329029162,"sku":"9780374528386","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/collected-poems-in-english-4092700.jpg?v=1762150591"},{"product_id":"nativity-poems-bilingual-edition","title":"Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristmas poems by the Nobel Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the \u003cbr\u003esteam out \u003cbr\u003eof the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team\u003cbr\u003eof Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar.\u003cbr\u003eHe was but a dot, and a dot was the star.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Star of the Nativity\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoseph 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNativity Poems\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Joseph Brodsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793329618986,"sku":"9780374528577","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/nativity-poems-bilingual-edition-9621832.jpg?v=1762150590"},{"product_id":"to-urania-poems","title":"To Urania: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eCombining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, \u003ci\u003eTo Urania\u003c\/i\u003e was Brodsky's third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, this collection features pieces translated by the poet himself and others, as well as poems written originally in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuden once characterized Brodsky as \"a traditionalist . . . interested in what lyric poets of all ages have been interested in . . . encounters with nature . . . reflections upon the human condition, death, and the meaning of existence.\" Reading the poems in \u003ci\u003eTo Urania\u003c\/i\u003e--by turns cerebral, caustic, comic, and celebratory--we appreciate firsthand a great lyric poet's variety and achievement.","brand":"Joseph Brodsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793329684522,"sku":"9780374523336","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/to-urania-poems-4814463.jpg?v=1762150590"},{"product_id":"so-forth","title":"So Forth","description":"Joseph Brodsky's last volume of poems in English, So Forth, represents eight years of masterful self-translation from the Russian, as well as a by now substantial body of work written directly in English. At the time of his death in 1996 Brodsky was recognized as one of the great poets of his mother tongue; yet after twenty-four years in the United States, and decades of teaching and studying poetry in English, he had become a master of his adoptive language as well. The poems collected here reflect the many milieus he inhabited - rural Massachusetts, New York City, his native St. Petersburg, the great cities of Europe - but they are the voice of a citizen of the world, exploring the territories of language itself.","brand":"Joseph Brodsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793330012202,"sku":"9780374525538","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/so-forth-8632423.jpg?v=1762150528"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/joseph-brodsky.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}