A Part of Speech

by Brodsky, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780374516338
• ISBN10: 0374516332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-05-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

"A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.

Author Biography

Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and emigrated to the United States in 1972. He serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. He was named the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1981, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for Less Than One in 1986, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. In 1991 and 1992 he served as Poet Laureate of the United States

Table of Contents

A Song to No Music
Six Years Later	p. 3
Anno Domini	p. 5
Autumn in Norenskaya	p. 8
A second Christmas	p. 10
Homage to Yalta	p. 11
A Song to No Music	p. 26
The End of a Beautiful Era	p. 34
Lithuanian Divertissement	p. 37
On Love	p. 40
I Sit by the Window	p. 41
Nature Morte	p. 43
December 24, 1971	p. 47
To a Tyrant	p. 49
The Funeral of Bobo	p. 50
Letters to a Roman Friend	p. 52
Nunc Dimittis	p. 55
Odysseus to Telemachus	p. 58
A Part of Speech
An autumn evening	p. 61
1972	p. 63
In the Lake District	p. 67
The Butterfly	p. 68
Torso	p. 73
Lagoon	p. 74
The classical ballet	p. 77
On the Death of Zhukov	p. 78
Mexican Divertimento	p. 79
The Thames at Chelsea	p. 89
A Part of Speech	p. 92
Lullaby of Cape Cod	p. 107
December in Florence	p. 119
In England	p. 122
Plato Elaborated	p. 129
Letters from the Ming Dynasty	p. 132
The Rustle of Acacias	p. 134
Elegy: for Robert Lowell	p. 135
Strophes	p. 138
San Pietro	p. 145
Notes	p. 149
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