A Part of Speech
by Brodsky, JosephFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1981-05-01
Publisher(s): Farrar Straus & Giroux
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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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