Who is Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский [ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj] (listen); 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and at universities including Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and Michigan.

Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States...
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Joseph Brodsky Poems

• Letters To The Roman Friend
  From Martial
  Now is windy and the waves are cresting over
  Fall is soon to come to change the place entirely.
  Change of colors moves me, Postum, even stronger ...
• Bosnia Tune
  As you pour yourself a scotch
  Crush a roach or check your watch
  As your hands adjust your tie people die
  ...
• Törnfallet
  There is a meadow in Sweden
  where I lie smitten,
  eyes stained with clouds'
  white ins and outs. ...
• Seven Strophes
  I was but what you'd brush
  with your palm, what your leaning
  brow would hunch to in evening's
  raven-black hush. ...
• Stone Villages
  The stone-built villages of England.
  A cathedral bottled in a pub window.
  Cows dispersed across fields.
  Monuments to kings. ...

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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

• For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
• No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
• Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside.

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Comments about Joseph Brodsky

• Mirighttoread: “there are worse crimes than burning books. one of them is not reading them.” - joseph brodsky
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• Driapustaka: “there are worse crimes than burning books. one of them is not reading them.” ― joseph brodsky

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