Collected Poems In English

Resumen del libro

The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last

One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky's work.

Biografía del autor

Joseph Brodsky (San Petersburgo, 1940-Nueva York, 1996) fue procesado por parasitismo social en 1964 y condenado a cinco años de trabajos forzados. Gracias a la intercesión de varios intelectuales, cumplió solo una parte de la pena, pero en 1972 acabó expulsado de la Unión Soviética. Tras dos breves estadías en Viena y Londres, se instaló en Estados Unidos, donde impartió clases en varias universidades y obtuvo una nueva nacionalidad en 1977. x{0026}lt;br x{0026}lt;/br En 1987 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura.