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Winter 1979 • Vol. I No. 1 • Poetry |

Demon

By Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Joseph Brodsky

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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.

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