Self-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from…

The life of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), one of Russia’s great modern poets, is the stuff of legend, from his survival of the siege of Leningrad in early childhood to his…

Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate

To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother’s breast, the
steam out
of the ox’s nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the…

The late Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist explores a broad spectrum of topics, including the future of poetry, the nature of history, the condition of exile, the art of reading…

Offers a portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky. This book highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in…

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism–the action takes place two centuries after our era–Joseph Brodsky’s only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone…

Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown…