Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries

"This book is the first of its kind. It is a fascinating record of 18 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel Prize-winner for Literature (1987). It combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalin Russia. His unique position in Russian literature is underlined by the fact that as a poet, essayist and playwright he is widely...
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"This book is the first of its kind. It is a fascinating record of 18 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel Prize-winner for Literature (1987). It combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalin Russia. His unique position in Russian literature is underlined by the fact that as a poet, essayist and playwright he is widely known and read in the English-speaking world: he was recently appointed as poet laureate of the USA (May 1991). This book is a superb guide to further study of Brodsky's work for both the specialist scholar and the general reader who loves poetry and is intoxicated by it. It is highly readable, reliable and contains well-researched source material. It also includes Brodsky's views, some previously unpublished, on poetry and language. Every interviewed poet displayed an excellent knowledge of Brodsky's work and gave rich and imaginative interpretation of his major themes. Dr. Polukhina sensitively juxtaposes this wide-ranging account of Brodsky's mode of thinking."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved