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Collected Poems in English, by Joseph Brodsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00.

Born in 1940, dead young in 1996, Brodsky carved his life out of Cold War granite. His extensive body of poetry is astonishingly coherent, characterized by sensitive, formal conventionality and repeated imagistic originality. Readers judge his poems about place the work of a sophisticated traveler and his essays on other Russian poets, rewarding expressions of intimate cultural connections. Books and articles about him proliferate. Among the large amount of commentary and analysis available in English and Russian, excellent work includes his friend, the poet Lev Loseff's Poetika ... 







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