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This study offers a fascinating record of conversations about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, with poets of various nationalities, publishers, editors, translators, Brodsky's friends, and family members.
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Joseph Brodsky's greatness as a poet has to do with his expectation that life measure up to the demands of art and not vice versa. These conversations show that his friendship has an equally heightening and challenging effect upon his gifted contemporaries. Brodsky emerges as a kind of one-man ozone layer, protecting and enhancing the possibility of poetic life in our times. The conversations are really full of life and attest greatly to Joseph's high powers - to Joseph's high powers. This book is the first of its kind.It is a fascinating record of 20 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize-winner for Literature. It combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalin Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright Brodsky is widely known and read in the English-speaking world: in 1991, he succeeded Mark Strand as Poet Laureate of the United States.This book is a superb guide to further study of Brodsky's work both for specialist scholars and general readers who are intoxicated by poetry.
It is highly readable and contains well-researched, reliable source material. It also includes Brodsky's views, some previously unpublished, on poetry and language. Every interviewed poet demonstrates an excellent knowledge of Brodsky's work and gives rich and imaginative interpretations of his major themes. Professor Polukhina sensitively contextualises this wide-ranging account of Brodsky's work. The second edition of this volume has been enlarged with two previously unpublished interviews.
Contents
ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Anatoly Naiman A Coagulation ofLinguistic Energy 2 Yakov Gordin A Tragic Perception of the World 3 Yevgeny Rein The Introduction of theProsaic into Poetry 4 Natal'ya Gorbanevskaya Subordination to theLanguage 5 Bella Akhmadulina Perfection of Harmony6 Elena Ushakova A Poet of Intense Thought 7 Aleksandr Kushner The World's LastRomantic Poet 5 Lev Loseff A New Conception of Poetry 6 Vladimir Ufliand One of the Freest Men7 David Sharayer-Petrov He Transformed Russian Poetry 8 Mikhail Meilakh Liberation from Emotionality 12 Viktor Krivulin A Mask that's Grown toFit the Face 13 Yury Kublanovsky A Yankee in Russian Poetry 14 Elena Shvarts Coldness and Rationality15 Olga Sedakova A Rare Independence 16 Aleksey Parshchikov Absolute Tranquillity in theFace of Absolute Tragedy 17 Tomas Venclova Development of Semantic Poetics 18 Roy Fisher A Noble Quixotic Sight 19 Derek Walcott A Merciless Judge 20 Czeslaw Milosz A Huge Building of StrangeArchitecture21 Peter Viereck He was a Quick Learner Index of Names Index of Works by Brodsky
