Form in Poetry: Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott in a conversation with Bengt Jangfeldt

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.

Derek Walcott published numerous collections of poetry, as well as plays and essays. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner.