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PREFACE | 7 | (2) | |
First Meeting: My Unreliable Memory | 9 | (7) | |
"Would you want to be judged by these?" | 16 | (3) | |
Reading in Iowa City, Iowa | 19 | (3) | |
Cats | 22 | (2) | |
"A Part of Speech": Misunderstandings | 24 | (3) | |
"Tenderly Yours" | 27 | (2) | |
Having it All: His Own Idiolect | 29 | (6) | |
Interlude | 35 | (1) | |
Is Russian Translatable? | 36 | (5) | |
"May 24, 1980" and Reading Aloud | 41 | (7) | |
"May 24, 1980", the Brodsky Version | 48 | (6) | |
Translating Oneself | 54 | (4) | |
Brodsky Remembered | 58 | (2) | |
"The Poem" | 60 | (4) | |
"The Jewish Cemetery in Leningrad" | 64 | (3) | |
But Back to "May 24, 1980" and Tonic Verse | 67 | (7) | |
Something New | 74 | (2) | |
Jewishness | 76 | (9) | |
Another Look at "the Poem" | 85 | (2) | |
Recriminations | 87 | (3) | |
"A Part of Speech": Attitude Indeed! | 90 | (2) | |
"On Love" | 92 | (4) | |
Choices | 96 | (7) | |
Words Aloud | 103 | (4) | |
Proselytizing Students | 107 | (4) | |
The Self Projected | 111 | (4) | |
How Does Brodsky or Anyone Else Translate Brodsky? | 115 | (2) | |
Two Jews | 117 | (4) | |
Improvising the Whole: D.H. Lawrence | 121 | (6) | |
Buber | 127 | (3) | |
Rhymes Galore | 130 | (4) | |
Hopkins, Yes; Brodsky, No! | 134 | (3) | |
An Irish Tribute | 137 | (2) | |
Rhymes, Especially Feminine Ones | 139 | (6) | |
So Forth: Who is the Translator? | 145 | (3) | |
An Inscription | 148 | (2) | |
At Sea in English But Not in American: Rhymes | 150 | (8) | |
The Russianizing of Donne | 158 | (6) | |
Writing and the Man | 164 | (2) | |
The Essayist | 166 | (2) | |
On Not Saying Goodbye | 168 | (2) | |
Projects, Especially 19th-Century Russian Poetry | 170 | (5) | |
Pasternak: The Joys of English | 175 | (4) | |
New York: Home | 179 | (4) | |
A Sour Note | 183 | (1) | |
A Collective Goodbye | 184 | (4) | |
Zabolotsky in Brooklyn Heights | 188 | (9) | |
Last Conversation with Joseph | 197 | (3) | |
Defending the Bard | 200 | (5) | |
Former Students' Testimonies | 205 | (2) | |
Listening | 207 | (3) | |
The Shape of "May 24, 1980": Compensation | 210 | (3) | |
Brodsky into Brodsky | 213 | (3) | |
Tidying up JB | 216 | (5) | |
"May 24, 1980": Into the Lions' Den | 221 | (3) | |
Revising "A Part of Speech" | 224 | (6) | |
New Versions for Old | 230 | (3) | |
Leftover Comments on "May 24, 1980" | 233 | (2) | |
Against Formal Translation | 235 | (4) | |
Last But Not Least | 239 | (3) | |
POSTFACE | 242 | (3) | |
NOTES | 245 | (6) | |
INDEX | 251 |
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