Joseph Brodsky: conversations
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared émigré into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, 'Joseph Brodsky: Conversations' covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten…
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- Full title :Joseph Brodsky : conversations / edited by Cynthia L. Haven.
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Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared émigré into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, 'Joseph Brodsky: Conversations' covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable reinvention from a brilliant, brash, but decidedly provincial Leningrad poet to an international man of letters and an erudite Nobel Prize laureate. --
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- Publication Date:©2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxii, 191 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1578065275, 9781578065271, 1578065283, 9781578065288
- oclc:ocm50424388
- LC Classification:PG3479.4.R64
- Dewey Decimal:811/.54
Table of Contents
A conversation with Joseph Brodsky / Lynette Labinger -- Interview with Iosif Brodsky / Michael Scammell -- The Muse in Exile: Conversations with the Russian Poet, Joseph Brodsky / Anne-Marie Brumm -- A Poet's Map of His Poem: An Interview by George L. Kline / George L. Kline --Poet in Exile-Joseph Brodsky / Jane Ellen Glasser -- Questions and Answers after Brodsky's Reading, 21 February 1978 / The Iowa Review -- Interview with Joseph Brodsky / Eva Burch and David Chin -- The Art of Poetry XXVIII: Joseph Brodsky / Sven Birkerts -- Exiled / CBS, 60 Minutes -- An Interview with Joseph Brodsky / David Montenegro -- Interview with Joseph Brodsky / Missy Daniel -- Esthetics Is the Mother of Ethics / Grzegorz Musial and Tomislav Longinović -- Joseph Brodsky: The Poet and the Poem / Grace Cavalieri -- Joseph Brodsky: An Interview / Mike Hammer and Christina Daub -- An Interview with Joseph Brodsky / Blair Ewing -- Joseph Brodsky Answers Argotist's Questions / Nick Watson -- An Interview with Joseph Brodsky / Elizabeth Elam Roth.
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