Poetry Books by Joseph Brodsky
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Published Date: 1993
Categories: American essays
Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
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Published Date: 1998
Categories: Aristocracy (Social class)
While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the countess, but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published Date: 2011-04-01
Categories: Fiction
Vienna of the late nineteenth century, with its contrasting images of pomp and profound melancholy, provides the backdrop for Joseph Roth's final novel, which he completed in exile, a few years before his tragic death in 1939. The Tale of the 1002nd Night is a brilliant, allegorical tale of seduction and personal and societal ruin, set amidst exquisite, wistful descriptions of a waning aristocratic age, and provides an essential link to our understanding of Roth's extraordinary fictive powers.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Photography
This book captures former Soviet Jews in Utah in the context of their homes and social lives.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published Date: 1995
Categories: Poetry
Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many new poems, never before published, and work--some with stunning revisions--from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early as his 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Terror and Decorum. Tide and Continuties is the revelation of a great American poet.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published Date: 1990-01-01
Categories: Drama
A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for modernist imagination than for human experience.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Published Date: 1999
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
A poem about the discovery of America by all creatures, fish, birds, and humans, explores the possibilities that lie all around us still waiting to be discovered
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Photography
Depicts Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio, its statue of Marcus Aurelius, and its palaces designed by Michelangelo
Publisher: Macmillan
Published Date: 1998-03-04
Categories: Literary Criticism
A collection of poems focuses on a variety of aspects of modern life
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Published Date: 1996
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A collection of essays on the work of the American poet, Robert Frost. They explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Frost, and attempt to define the tension in his poems.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date: 1990-01-01
Categories: Drama
A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for modernist imagination than for human experience.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published Date: 1981-06-01
Categories: Poetry
Brodsky's first collection to be published since he settled in the United States as an involuntary Russian exile contains restrained, sometimes humorous, sometimes epigrammatic verses marked by serious wit and an acute sense of place
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2011-11-03
Categories: Literary Collections
Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil, and subtle evocations of his childhood in Leningrad. Brodsky's insightful appreciation of the intricacies of language, culture and identity connect these works, revealing his remarkable gifts as a prose writer.
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Published Date: 1988
Categories: American poetry
First published in 1988 and now available in paperback, a title in the PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS series which contains poems from various periods of the poet's career, including GORBUNOV AND GORCHAKOV, written in 1968.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2011-11-03
Categories: Literary Collections
In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the émigré writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and studies of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others. The second volume of essays following Less Than One, this collection includes Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published Date: 2002-04-01
Categories: Poetry
Presents the collected English poems of the former Poet Laureate of the United States who was exiled from his native Russia, only to go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Reprint.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2013-02-28
Categories: Travel
'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor' Wall Street Journal Watermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered. Above all, he reflects with great poetic force on how the rising tide of time affects city and inhabitants alike. Watermark is an unforgettable piece of writing, and a wonderful evocation of a remarkable, unique city. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
