{"product_id":"joseph-brodsky-conversations-9781578065288","title":"Joseph Brodsky: Conversations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century.  After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared émigré into, as he himself termed it, \"\"a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen.\"\"  In interviews from 1972 to 1995, \u003cem\u003eJoseph Brodsky: Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable reinvention from a brilliant, brash, but decidedly provincial Leningrad poet to an international man of letters and an erudite Nobel Prize laureate.  Brodsky's poetry earned him a Nobel, and his essays won him awards and international acclaim. This volume shows that there was a third medium, in addition to poetry and essays, in which Brodsky excelled--the interview. Although he said that \"\"in principle prose is simply spilling some beans, which poetry sort of contains in a tight pod,\"\" he nevertheless emerges as an extraordinary and inventive conversationalist. This volume includes not only his notable interviews that helped consolidate Brodsky's international reputation but also early and hard-to-find interviews in journals that have since disappeared. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic at the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eCortland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStanford Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work also has been published in \u003cem\u003eCivilization\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041473266007,"sku":"9781578065288","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781578065288.jpg?v=1750950414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/joseph-brodsky-conversations-9781578065288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}