So Forth: Poems - Softcover

Brodsky, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525536 ISBN 13: 9780374525538

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

Synopsis

Joseph Brodsky's last volume of poems in English, So Forth, represents eight years of masterful self-translation from the Russian, as well as a substantial body of work written directly in English.

"Nobel laureate Brodsky completed work on this sobering and brilliant collection just a week before his death ...." Brodsky's death is a loss to literature; his final collection of poems is the best consolation we could ask for." - Publishers Weekly

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Review:

A collection of poems in English by Joseph Brodsky, the supremely accomplished Russian poet who stood up to the repression of his native land and then constructed a whole new literary life and a huge reputation while in exile in the United States. Already established as a great Russian poet, Brodsky astonishingly achieved the equivalent in his adoptive language. Most of the poems in So Forth were written during the 10 years before his death, and while many exhibit his newly Americanized tongue, some revel in the mysterious accents that characterized his Russian works.

About the Author:

The poet Joseph Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374525536
• ISBN 13: 9780374525538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144