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Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition

Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition Paperback - 2002

by Brodsky, Joseph

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Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2002. New Book. Paperback. 128 pp. Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate. To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar. He was but a dot, and a dot was the star. --from Star of the Nativity Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as a Christian by correspondence, endeavored from the time he first took to writing poems seriously, to write a poem for every Christmas. He said in an interview: What is remarkable about Christmas? The fact that what we're dealing with here is the calculation of life--or, at the very least, existence--in the consciousness of an individual, a specific individual. He continued, I liked that concentration of everything in one place--which is what you have in that cave scene. There resulted a remarkable sequence of poems about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention. In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.
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  • Title Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition
  • Author Brodsky, Joseph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York
  • Date 2002
  • Features Bilingual
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 17676
  • ISBN 9780374528577 / 0374528578
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.34 x 4.64 x 0.39 in (18.64 x 11.79 x 0.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 891.714

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About the author

The poet, essayist, and playwright Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.