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Joseph Brodsky: Conversations

Joseph Brodsky: Conversations

Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky's poetry earned him a Nobel, and his essays won him awards and international acclaim. This volume shows that there was a third medium, in addition to poetry and essays, in which Brodsky excelled--the interview.
Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque

Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque

David MacFadyen

After 1979 Joseph Brodsky's work enters a new stage, one that draws upon and parallels a comparable phase of the Baroque in terms of painting, literature, and philosophy. In the realm of pictorial art, Brodsky's new stage corresponds to the ...
Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem

Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem

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This is an imaginative work of literary criticism. Thirteen scholars have selected a wide variety of Joseph Brodsky's poems written between 1970 and 1994 for detailed discussion in the context of his whole output.
Watermark: An Essay on Venice

Watermark: An Essay on Venice

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky. the soul's agony as because of the wonderful Bellini Madonna with Child in it. I wanted to disembark there and steal a glance at the painting, at the inchwide interval that separates her left palm from the Child's sole.
Marbles: A Play in Three Acts

Marbles: A Play in Three Acts

Joseph Brodsky

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 provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of ...
Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky's insightful appreciation of the intricacies of language, culture and identity connect these works, revealing his remarkable gifts as a prose writer.
A Part of Speech

A Part of Speech

Joseph Brodsky

Brodsky's first collection to be published since he settled in the United States as an involuntary Russian exile contains restrained, sometimes humorous, sometimes epigrammatic verses marked by serious wit and an acute sense of place
Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse

Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse

David MacFadyen

In Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse David MacFadyen counters the melodrama surrounding the poet's reputation, repositioning him in the context of Leningrad during the fifties and sixties.
Conversations with Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through ...

Conversations with Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through ...

Solomon Volkov

Brodsky describes his post-Russian life in New York and reveals for the first time his active participation in one of the cold war's most noted cultural confrontations - the famous defection of the Bolshoi Ballet star Alexander Godunov.
Summary : The Knack - Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham: How ...

Summary : The Knack - Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham: How ...

BusinessNews Publishing

NORM BRODSKY is an Inc. magazine columnist along with Bo Burlingham. Mr. Brodsky has launched seven successful businesses including CitiStorage which sold for $110 million. Another of his companies, Perfect Courier, was featured for  ...
Brodsky: A Personal Memoir

Brodsky: A Personal Memoir

Li͡udmila Shtern

Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration.
Selected poems

Selected poems

Joseph Brodsky

Presents a compilation of works by the Russian poet with notes on his background, style, and subject matter
Conversations avec Joseph Brodsky

Conversations avec Joseph Brodsky

Solomon Volkov

L'auteur a fréquenté pendant près de vingt ans le poète russe à New York.
Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Joseph Brodsky

This collection of essays amply demonstrates the wide range of the poet's interests and includes essays on poetry, politics, and literature and his memoir of life in Leningrad
On Grief and Reason: Essays

On Grief and Reason: Essays

Joseph Brodsky

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, the poetry of Robert Frost, and studies of the work of ...
Winter Dialogue

Winter Dialogue

Tomas Venclova

... Data Venclova. Tomas. 1937- [Poems. English. Selections] Winter dialogue : poems / by Tomas Venclova : translated by Diana Senechal : foreword by Joseph Brodsky : dialogue between Czesfaw Mitasz and Tomas Venclova. p. cm. Poems  ...
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section One ...

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section One ...

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Joseph Baseball Association, Joseph, Or. Joseph Beggs Foundation for Kinematics, Riverside, Ca. (4) Joseph Belsky Home Care Services of United Cerebral Palsy Inc., New York, N. Y. Joseph Best Ministries Christian Gospel Mission Inc., ...
The Aaron/Q'uo Dialogues: An Extraordinary Conversation ...

The Aaron/Q'uo Dialogues: An Extraordinary Conversation ...

Barbara Brodsky

Inspired by the breakthrough channeled series The Law of One, Buddhist teacher Barbara Brodksy sent its author, Carla L. Rueckert, some transcriptions of her own material.
Christianity and Modern European Literature

Christianity and Modern European Literature

Daniel Murphy

The work examines the writings of twelve authors: Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Tolstoy, Unamuno, Mauriac, Eliot, Auden, Pasternak, Mandelstam, White, Milosz and Brodsky.
ASEEPL

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The author reports on the publication of Ne l'ko Brodskii: russkaia kul' V r i anekdotakh (Not only Brodsky: Russian culture in portraits and anecdotes) (New York: Slovo, 1988), text by Sergei Dovlatov, photographs by Marianna Volkova.
Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph ...

Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph ...

Analisa Leppanen-Guerra

13 Joseph Cornell, Diary entry (Jan. 28, 1955), Joseph Cornell Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 14 Joseph Cornell, Diary entry (Apr. 7, 1960), Joseph Cornell Papers. 15 Joseph Cornell, Diary entry (Apr. 27, 1960), ...
Russian Writers Since 1980

Russian Writers Since 1980

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... Brodsky modeled an eloquent literary protest to both state-sponsored tyranny and the stifling banality of conformism that will not soon be forgotten. Interviews: Marianna Volkova and Solomon Volkov, IosifBrodskii v N'vu-Iorke: Fotoportrety i ...
Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order

Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order

Lindsay Blair

76-81, republished in Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, pp. 150-53. See also the essay by Sandra Starr in Joseph Cornell: The Crystal Cage (Portrait of Berenice), exh. cat., Tokyo, Gatado Gallery, 1987; Helen H. Haroutunian, 'Joseph Cornell ...
Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

Norm Brodsky

A veteran company-builder offers practical advice for solving the everyday problems of starting and running a new business and tips for recognizing the opportunities that will ultimately make it successful.
The Post Office London Directory

The Post Office London Directory

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Joan Bauer

Joan Bauer

Alleen Pace Nilsen

She does not want him to develop a close relationship with Joseph and then to be hurt if Joseph disappears for another ... Poppy hires Francine to be the entertainment, and Joseph Alvarez brings buckets of Texas barbecue—the best anyone ...
Oral History and Photography

Oral History and Photography

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... Charlee Brodsky, “Envisioning Homestead: Using Photographsin Interviewing ( Homestead, Pennsylvania),” in:EvaM. McMahan and Kim Lacy Rogers, eds., Interactive OralHistory Interviewing (Hillsdale, NJ:LawrenceErlbaumAssociates ...
Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, ...

Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, ...

Bozena Shallcross

See Marianna Volkova and Solomon Volkov, IosifBrodskii 1/ N 'iu-Iorke (New York: Cultural Center for Soviet Refugees, Inc., 1990), 22. Galya Diment, “English as Sanctuary: Nabokov's and Brodsky's Autobiographical Writings,” Slavic and ...

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