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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

So Forth

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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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374525538
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Authors:
Joseph Brodsky
Published Date:
1998-03-04
Language:
English

About Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was born in Leningrad, USSR. In 1964 Soviet authorities convicted him of "social parasitism" and sentenced him to five years of hard labor in the Arkhangelsk region; international pressure secured his release in 1965. Expelled from the USSR in 1972, he settled in the United States and taught at the University of Michigan and Mount Holyoke College. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1991 to 1992. His English-language collections include A Part of Speech (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980) and To Urania (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988).

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