A Part of Speech

by Joseph Brodsky, Richard Wilbur (Translator), Daniel Weissbort (Translator), Barry Rubin (Translator), David Rigsbee (Translator)

Overview

A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.

"Like the Auden who was, no less than Lowell, his champion, Brodsky is a master of traditional forms." - The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374516338
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	06/01/1981
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,037,925
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

The poet Joseph Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987.

Table of Contents

	A Song to No Music
	Six Years Later	3
	Anno Domini	5
	Autumn in Norenskaya	8
	A second Christmas	10
	Homage to Yalta	11
	A Song to No Music	26
	The End of a Beautiful Era	34
	Lithuanian Divertissement	37
	On Love	40
	I Sit by the Window	41
	Nature Morte	43
	December 24, 1971	47
	To a Tyrant	49
	The Funeral of Bobo	50
	Letters to a Roman Friend	52
	Nunc Dimittis	55
	Odysseus to Telemachus	58
	A Part of Speech
	An autumn evening	61
	1972	63
	In the Lake District	67
	The Butterfly	68
	Torso	73
	Lagoon	74
	The classical ballet	77
	On the Death of Zhukov	78
	Mexican Divertimento	79
	The Thames at Chelsea	89
	A Part of Speech	92
	Lullaby of Cape Cod	107
	December in Florence	119
	In England	122
	Plato Elaborated	129
	Letters from the Ming Dynasty	132
	The Rustle of Acacias	134
	Elegy: for Robert Lowell	135
	Strophes	138
	San Pietro	145
	Notes	149