Brodsky, Joseph

Joseph Brodsky: conversations

by Haven, Cynthia L., Brodsky, Joseph

fromLiterary conversations series

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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 te…

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