Dedicated to the Spine
In 1978, after a trip to Brazil, Brodsky wrote an essay After a Trip or Dedicated to the Spine.
This work consists of prose works that gravitate to genre travelogues. The first is Solomon Volkov's conversation with Brodsky, and the second is about Soviet spies. Other texts, although closest to travelogues, can be equally called essays - about Leningrad, Brazil, and Istanbul.
"If you sit on the bank of the river long enough, you will see the corpse of your enemy floating beside you." Chinese proverbIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, 24 May 1940 - 28 January 1996) was a Russian-American poet and essayist.
He was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
In 1955 Brodsky began writing poetry and producing literary translations.
Brodsky’s poetry addresses personal themes and treats in a powerful, meditative fashion the universal concerns of life, death, and the meaning of existence.
Many of his works were translated into German, French, and English and published abroad.
In 1972 he emigrate from the Soviet Union, settling in the United States and becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1977.
Brodsky has taught at several universities and colleges, among them-University of Michigan, Queens College, Smith College, Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College, and Cambridge University.
Brodsky is known for his poetry collections A Part of Speech (1977) and To Urania (1988), and the essay collection, Less Than One (1986).
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