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	Joseph Brodsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский) was a poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992).
		On June 4, 1972 Brodsky was exiled from the USSR and became a U.S. citizen in 1980.
		Brodsky died of a heart attack in his New York City apartment on January 28, 1996 and was buried at Isola di San Michele cemetery in Venice, Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Brodsky (883 words)

	Joseph Brodsky
		Joseph Brodsky was introduced to an audience at the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam December 15 not as a poet but as the poet.
		Brodsky said this was due not so much to differences in the verbal content of the poem in its two forms but "how you read" and that this is greatly shaped by one's national background.
		Joseph Brodsky was born in 1940, in Leningrad, and began writing poetry when he was eighteen.
	www.geocities.com /bororissa/brodsky.html (1671 words)

	Competition for the design of a Monument to Joseph Brodsky in Saint-Petersburg [Time of Life]
		Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky was born in Leningrad on May 24, 1940, though he detested the name of that city which was called Peter in everyday parlance.
		Brodsky wrote that if anyone benefited from the war, it was his generation, its children, who had survived and had acquired rich material for their romantic fantasies.
		Brodsky must have accepted the invitation for two reasons: firstly, it was customary at Rene Brendel’s not to drink (or to drink less than he would have wanted); secondly, he had to kill time waiting for the news.
	brodsky.alfabank.ru /eng/biography (1307 words)

	II Journal: A Poet Remembered: Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996
		Joseph Brodsky was an exceptional man. He dropped out of high school at age 15, and the first degree he received was an honorary doctorate.
		Brodsky began teaching for the first time in his life in September, 1972 - a daunting assignment for anyone, but especially for a young man who had dropped out of high school at fifteen, even if he was accustomed to declaiming his poetry to large groups of admirers.
		Brodsky was an inspiring and unorthodox teacher, who combined significant demands of his students - he insisted that a person who was serious about poetry must know at least 1,000 lines by heart - with a sense of the absurd.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no2/brodsky.html (1111 words)

	Joseph Brodsky: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Brodsky was born in Leningrad (A city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia), now St.
		Brodsky: "I think that it comes from God (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)."
		For his parasitism Brodsky was sentenced to five years of hard labor in internal exile and served 18 months in Archangelsk (additional info and facts about Archangelsk) region.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_brodsky.htm (552 words)

	Cissie Dore Hill: Remembering Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Brodsky was arrested and charged with “having a worldview damaging to the state, decadence and modernism, failure to finish school, and social parasitism.
		Brodsky was castigated in the Leningrad press as early as 1963 for being a “quasi-literary drone” whose poetry was pessimistic, cynical, and decadent.
		In 1996, Joseph Brodsky suffered a massive heart attack and died at the age of 55, leaving his new wife, Maria Sozzani, and two-year-old daughter, Anna.
	www.hooverdigest.org /004/dorehill.html (1595 words)

	Reminiscence: Joseph Brodsky: Post Road #8
		Brodsky was at one and the same time the worst and the most vital and compelling teacher I've ever had.
		Brodsky's tone on these occasions carried—I don't think I imagined this—a slightly bored, contemptuous edge, but also, to quote Auden (his favorite) quoting Serge Diaghilev, a sense of “astonish me.” He made each of us want to say the brilliant thing, to earn that rarest of accolades: “Terrific!” But anxiety was usually more powerful.
		Brodsky had died of a massive heart attack—at home in New York, not in Venice as he had once wished (though he is now buried in Venice).
	www.postroadmag.com /8/etcetera/ReminiscenceJosephBrodsky.phtml (3090 words)

	Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Joseph Brodsky is a native of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.
		Joseph Brodsky received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.
		Joseph Brodsky is Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College, and resides in New York.
	www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/Brodsky.html (143 words)

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	Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I was never introduced to Joseph Brodsky, and my one memory of the Nobel Prize winner, who died last week of heart failure, at the age of 55, is a little offbeat.
		It was a few years ago, in Sanders Theatre, at a Poets Theatre evening celebrating the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova: Brodsky with his eyes barely open, not reading, not even reciting, but invoking, as if in a vatic trance, her spirit.
		Brodsky was writing on the run: A Part of Speech leaves Russia, glances back nostalgically at Imperial Rome and the Greece of Homer, touches down at Ann Arbor, goes on to Venice, Mexico, Chelsea (in London), Cape Cod, Munich, Florence, England, Venice again.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/02-96/JOSEPH_BRODSKY.html (673 words)

	Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A Room and a Half is the last essay in Joseph Brodsky's Less Than One: Selected Essays, dedicated to the 'memory of my mother and father', and it is small extracts of this that will punctuate the rest of this article.
		Brodsky wrote in both Russian and English, the former, of course, being his native language.
		Brodsky himself praised America on its spirit of individualism, its language, its literature.
	www.empirezine.com /spotlight/brodsky/1.htm (1358 words)

	Joseph Brodsky
		Brodsky's reputation made him a target for the secret police and he was convicted as a 'social parasite'.
		Brodsky was sentenced to five years of hard labour, but the sentence was commuted in 1965 after protests by such prominent cultural figures as the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the poet Anna Akhmatova, the anti- Stalinist icon, who was his close friend.
		Brodsky's parents were not allowed to travel to the West to see him and they died in Leningrad.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /brodsky.htm (1370 words)

	Intro to Joseph Brodsky
		When Joseph Brodsky emigrated to the United States in 1972 as an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union, he probably believed that he’d see his parents again, that political circumstances would inevitably change.
		Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) was born in Leningrad and emigrated to the United States in 1972 as an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union.
		Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.
	www.tcsn.net /jackie/Archive/intro_to_joseph_brodsky.htm (618 words)

	Joseph Brodsky / Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		BRODSKY, Joseph (1940-96), Russian-born poet and Nobel laureate, born in Saint Petersburg (then known as Leningrad).
		Arrested and tried as a "parasite" by the Soviet government in 1964, he was sentenced to five years in a labor camp but was released after less than two years because of international protests.
		Expelled from the USSR in 1972, Brodsky settled in the U.S. and became a U.S. citizen in 1977.
	www.ardani.com /a_BrodskyBiography.html (212 words)

	Thoughts from Christmas past / Joseph Brodsky's annual reflections on the Nativity collected in one volume
		Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky's "Nativity Poems" are an extended meditation on a lifelong theme.
		Brodsky meticulously replicated inflection, rhyme schemes and meter for an audience that has grown metrically tone-deaf over the last century; alas, his Western audience has instead become allergic to any artifice and unnaturalness in language, to which Brodsky, in turn, was tone- deaf in English.
		Brodsky once said that if he were an American poet, he thought he'd be Wilbur; the affinity is apparent in these pages.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/23/RV152495.DTL&type=printable (726 words)

	Joseph Brodsky an exile by choice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The apology of a state burial was therefore not required; the dispute from Brodsky's point of view had been forgotten and the conditions of his migration had become a personal choice.
		Post-death attempts to re-claim or re-interpret the exiled Brodsky as a "St Petersburg soul" are attempts therefore to discard a large part of his growth and existence as a poet.
		It is ultimately these voices that influenced Brodsky's own style, his formalist attention to meter, form and rhyme, and it is ultimately among these voices that he will be remembered, as an artist beyond the lines drawn on the map by politics, subject only to the traditions of poetry.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/spbweb/lifestyl/151/joseph.html (635 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Brodsky, I am to discover, possesses a droll, sardonic wit whose sharpest edges he saves for the bureaucratic tyrants of his native country, from which he was exiled 16 years ago after serving 18 months in a Siberian labor camp.
		Brodsky says that there was never a single dramatic moment when he realized in a blaze of clarity that he would become a poet.
		Brodsky says that what he feared most in coming to the United States was a certain American naivete about human nature.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1988/1988u.html (1781 words)

	Online NewsHour: Brodsky
		Joseph Brodsky emigrated to the United States after being expelled from his native Russia in 1972.
		JIM LEHRER: Joseph Brodsky appeared on the NewsHour in 1988, and talked about the thing he liked most about America; its spirit of individualism.
		Well, if Joseph was sublime, he was also amazingly clear and tough-minded, and here's a poem that--part of a poem sequence called "A Part of Speech" that might be a place to end: "Life that no one dares to appraise, like that gift horse's mouth, bears its teeth in a grin at each encounter.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/brodsky_1-29.html (1042 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1972, Joseph Brodsky, a poet with a prison record (for "parasitism") at home and a high critical reputation abroad, was exiled from the Soviet Union.
		...Brodsky, who hails from a tyrant state which houses barely thirty people per square mile, might be expected to know that evil and degradation in this world do not come from allowing parents to have as many children as their hearts desire...
		...In his own ostentatiously neutral phrase, Brodsky in coming to the West has merely "switched Empires" (as he writes in the poem, "Lullaby of Cape Cod"), and is as committed to criticizing the irresoluteness and materialism of the democracies as he is to berating Soviet totalitarianism for its dullness and brutality...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I5P76-1.htm (1918 words)

	Buy.com - On Grief and Reason: Essays : Joseph Brodsky : ISBN 0374525099
		Joseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation.
		When Brodsky was asked to justify where his poetic talent came from, since he was not formally schooled in the art, having dropped out at 15 and subsequently become a laborer, stoker, and morgue attendant, his reply ("I think that it comes from God") was not popular with the court.
		Brodsky was already a favorite poet of the underground by this time, and his work in samizdat publications had earned him the respect of many (and the ire of the Secret Police).
	www.buy.com /prod/On_Grief_and_Reason_Essays/q/loc/106/30052284.html (786 words)

	Joseph Brodsky biography
		Joseph Brodsky, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, in Leningrad, Russia.
		Brodsky first wrote his poetry in Russian, but he later switched to English.
		Brodsky died of a heart attack in New York in 1996.
	writer.eshire.net /brodsky (366 words)

	FileRoom.org - Russian poet Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Description of Incident: Brodsky's first taste of censorship came in 1959 when the publisher of a poetry collection that included his poems was arrested.
		Brodsky was accused of debauchery, pessimism, social parasitism and anti-Soviet activities.
		He was sent to prison on the parasitism charge; the Soviet court decided that since he was a poet, he didn't really have a job.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/873 (151 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joseph Brodsky
		Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 â“ January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian:
		Brodsky taught himself English and Polish, acquired deep interest in classical philosophy, religion, mythology, English and American poetry and began writing poetry in 1957.
		On June 4, 1972 Brodsky was exiled and became a U.S. citizen in 1980.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joseph-Brodsky (454 words)

	AllRefer.com - Joseph Brodsky (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Joseph Brodsky, Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biographies
		He was first denounced by the Soviet government (for "decadence and modernism," among other charges) in 1963 and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972.
		Brodsky emigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen, taught at several colleges, and continued to build a reputation as a distinguished literary figure.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Brodsky.html (375 words)

	Press Release: Hoover Institution Exhibit on Russian Poet Joseph Brodsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		STANFORD — An exhibit commemorating the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is scheduled to open on May 24, 2000, the 60th anniversary of his birth, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion at the Hoover Institution.
		Remembering Joseph Brodsky highlights his body of work and examines his life in the former Soviet Union, where he was the victim of harassment and sentenced to hard labor following his conviction as a "social parasite" in 1964.
		The Brodsky exhibit is based on the Hoover Institution Archives' Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Collection, which includes several rare limited editions of books from as early as 1965, along with drawings and photographs.
	www-hoover.stanford.edu /pubaffairs/releases/0400brodsky.html (270 words)

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