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Cynthia L. Haven

Cynthia Haven’s An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz was published in 2010. Her previous volumes include Czesław Miłosz: Conversations and Joseph Brodsky: Conversations. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London in 2005. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post Book World, and San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. In 2008 she studied in Poland with a Milena Jesenská Fellowship from Vienna’s Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.

Book Reviews

Spring 2011

No Other Place, No Other Time

By Cynthia L. Haven

Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets by Irena Grudzińska Gross. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 362 pp. $40.00, hardcover. Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, vol. […]

Book Reviews

Summer 2006

Uncle Grisha Was Right

By Cynthia L. Haven

Brodsky. A Personal Memoir by Ludmila Shtern. Fort Worth: Baskerville, 2004. 386 pp. $25.95. From Russian with Love: Joseph Brodsky in English by Daniel Weissbort. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2004. […]