Description
Title: To Urania: Poems
Author: Joseph Brodsky
ISBN: 0374172536
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, “To Urania” was Brodsky’s third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, this collection features pieces translated by the poet himself and others, as well as poems written originally in English.
Auden once characterized Brodsky as “a traditionalist . . . interested in what lyric poets of all ages have been interested in . . . encounters with nature . . . reflections upon the human condition, death, and the meaning of existence.” Reading the poems in “To Urania”–by turns cerebral, caustic, comic, and celebratory–we appreciate firsthand a great lyric poet’s variety and achievement.
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