Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300149371)

A dual portrait of the exile poets Milosz and Brodsky

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.

Author: Irena Grudzinska Gross
ISBN-10: 0300149379
ISBN-13: 9780300149371
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/20/2009 pg. 21
Choice 04/01/2010