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Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky

Fellowship of Poets

Irena Grudzinska Gross author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:24th Nov '09

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This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky.

 

The dual portrait of these poets and the elucidation of their attitudes toward religion, history, memory, and language throw a new light on the upheavals of the twentieth-century. Gross also incorporates notes on both poets’ relationships to other key literary figures, such as W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, and Derek Walcott.

 

"A compellingly interesting book."—Rosanna Warren, Boston University

-- Rosanna Warren
"In each of Grudzinska-Gross's clear statements, one senses years of reflection and extensive research. . . . Mitosz and Brodsky is an absorbing read."—Joanna Nizynska, The Russian Review -- Joanna Nizynska * The Russian Revi

ISBN: 9780300149371

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 27mm

Weight: 635g

384 pages