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Joseph Brodsky : a literary life

by Lev Loseff, Jane Ann Miller

This biography details the life of the Russian-American poet, from his childhood in Leningrad and expulsion from the Soviet Union to his Nobel Prize and role as US Poet Laureate. It also analyses the philosophical and religious sources that influenced his work.

Accession 17541 ISBN 9780300141191 Publisher Yale University Press
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