{"product_id":"conversations-with-joseph-brodsky-cynthia-l-haven-9781578065288","title":"Conversations with Joseph Brodsky","description":"Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In interviews from 1972 to 1995, \u003ci\u003eJoseph Brodsky: Conversations\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia L. Haven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578065283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578065288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.70d","brand":"Cynthia L. Haven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987895648511,"sku":"9781578065288","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d6fad0c0-c647-40a0-8cb8-408c950b27e3.jpg?v=1683291488","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-joseph-brodsky-cynthia-l-haven-9781578065288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}