Selected Poems, 1968–1996


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A career-spanning collection of poetry from the Russian American author and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature. Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, “Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling.” The poems in this volume span Brodsky’s career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, they represent the project that, as Brodsky said, the “condition we call exile” presented: “to set the next man—however theoretical he and his needs may be—a bit more free.” This edition, edited and introduced by Brodsky’s literary executor, Ann Kjellberg, includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. Selected Poems, 1968–1996 surveys Brodsky’s tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.




Collected Poems in English


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With nearly 200 poems, several of them never before published in book form, this is the essential volume of the Nobel Laureate's work.




On Grief and Reason


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"On Grief and Reason c"ollects the essays Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The volume includes his Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate DonGiovanni; his "Immodest Proposal" for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost; Brodsky's searching estimations of Hardy, Horace, and Rilke; and an affecting memoir of Stephen Spender.




Selected Poems


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Poems 1972-1982


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Three of Levertov's classic volumes are now available in a single edition. Included here are: "The Freeing of the Dust; Life in the Forest; " and "Candles in Babylon".




The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai


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"Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."—Anthony Hecht




George Oppen


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A selection of innovative poems by the groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize winner.




Selected Poems


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Homage to Robert Frost


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Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy.




Selected Poems


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