{"title":"Joseph Brodsky","description":"Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992. His books include Less Than One, On Grief and Reason, Selected Poems, and many others.","products":[{"product_id":"watermark-paperback-1","title":"Watermark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight short chapters--each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly twenty years)--\u003ci\u003eWatermark \u003c\/i\u003eassociatively and brilliantly evokes one city's architectural and atmospheric character. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrodsky writes in \u003ci\u003eWatermark \u003c\/i\u003ethat water \"stores our reflections for when we are long gone.\" This reissued edition of one of Brodsky's most important titles, on the occasion of the late Nobel laureate's eightieth birthday, allows the reader to visit the canals of Brodsky's Venice and rediscover the reflection of the writer himself.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376677912799,"sku":"9780374539047","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e3dbfrVKNq9780374539047.webp?v=1789221670"},{"product_id":"on-grief-and-reason-paperback","title":"On Grief and Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Grief and Reason\u003c\/i\u003e collects the essays that Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The volume includes Brodsky's Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate Don Giovanni; his \"Immodest Proposal\" for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost; his searching estimations of Hardy, Horace, and Rilke; an affecting memoir of Stephen Spender; and a moving meditation on the figure of Marcus Aureilus. The essays, composed in Brodsky's distinctive, idiomatic English, are inventive and alive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Nobel laureate, himself branded a \"pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers\" by Soviet authorities and expelled from his home country in 1972, writes boldly of the poet's place in society: \"By failing to read or listen to poets, a society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation--of the politician, or the salesman, or the charlatan--in short, to its own. It forfeits . . . its own evolutionary potential . . .\" This edition, reissued on the occasion of the late author's eightieth birthday, prompts the reader to consider Brodsky's words with renewed contemplation of the current state of literature and the society in which we read it.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376707600607,"sku":"9780374539061","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5IaPE7TZKv9780374539061.webp?v=1789221747"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-in-english-paperback","title":"Collected Poems in English - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378259624159,"sku":"9780374528386","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ohrJTLu7FE9780374528386.webp?v=1789250886"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-1968-1996-paperback","title":"Selected Poems, 1968-1996 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, \"Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling.\" The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, they represent the project that, as Brodsky said, the \"condition we call exile\" presented: \"to set the next man--however theoretical he and his needs may be--a bit more free.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition, edited and introduced by Brodsky's literary executor, Ann Kjellberg, includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems, 1968-1996\u003c\/i\u003e surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378346852575,"sku":"9780374600365","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Hce-jaw8yH9780374600365.webp?v=1789254459"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-brodsky.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}