{"product_id":"conversations-with-joseph-brodsky-paperback","title":"Conversations with Joseph Brodsky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia L. Haven\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiography -- Literary Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into, as he himself termed it, \"a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrodsky'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia L. Haven\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary critic for the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work also has been published in \u003ci\u003eCivilization\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eCortland Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.14 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714652475455,"sku":"9781578065288","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ebf303a87ba5afa957f1ea7618146b61.webp?v=1765068885","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/conversations-with-joseph-brodsky-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}