Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky

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Collected Poems in English by Joseph BrodskyOne 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

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Winged seedsfrom silver maples at the feet of unshaven sheriffsoffering fists of baby’s breath

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This book is that guide

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as when a poem slowly disentangles the speak- er’s connection with her father-in-law: “The air is grey

has become one of America’s most admired poets

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