Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was a Russian-Jewish poet, writer, director, and translator. He survived the Nazi siege of Leningrad during WWII and was arrested and prosecuted by the Soviet Regime before his emigration. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and was appointed the US Poet Laureate for 1991.
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Form in Poetry: Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott in a conversation with Bengt Jangfeldt
Introduction by Bengt Jangfeldt In September 1993, two Nobel laureates in literature, Joseph Brodsky (1987) and Derek Walcott (1992), were invited to the University of Linköping in Sweden for a […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
1972
From the Russian. Birds don’t fly through my skylight nowadays. A girl, like a beast, guards her noble place. If I chance to slip up on nobody’s cherry-stone, I don’t […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Demon
From the Russian. Where have you flown here from? What kind of grief d’you carry? Tell, flier, why your lips do lack a tint of life, and why the sea […]
Weekend Reads
1972
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1979, Vol. 1, No. 1 Translated from Russian by Alan Myers and the author Birds don’t fly through my skylight nowadays. A girl, […]