Brodsky Throught the Eyes of his Contemporaries

This study offers a fascinating record of conversations about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, with poets of various nationalities, publishers, editors, translators, Brodsky's friends, and family members. 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.