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| Title | : | Nativity Poems |
| Author | : | Joseph Brodsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | November 13th 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature |
Joseph Brodsky
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.13 | 146 Users | 15 Reviews
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Christmas poems by the Nobel LaureateTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the
steam out
of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team
of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar.
He was but a dot, and a dot was the star.
--from "Star of the Nativity"
Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as "a Christian by correspondence," endeavored from the time he "first took to writing poems seriously," to write a poem for every Christmas. He said in an interview: "What is remarkable about Christmas? The fact that what we're dealing with here is the calculation of life--or, at the very least, existence--in the consciousness of an individual, a specific individual." He continued, "I liked that concentration of everything in one place--which is what you have in that cave scene." There resulted a remarkable sequence of poems about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention.
In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.
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| Original Title: | Nativity Poems |
| ISBN: | 0374528578 (ISBN13: 9780374528577) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 146 Users | 15 ReviewsPiece Of Books Nativity Poems
Lovely! So strange to think of a Russian-Jewish poet writing a series of Nativity poems. They are beautiful.In 2001 Santa brought me this little book with Brodsky's christmas poems.Beautiful, balancing between your feet in the wet snow and the sounds of Christmas bells.Every year i read them again.
Very fine poems. I realized half-way through that Brodsky already wrote the poems I dream of writing and wrote them better than I will ever be able to.
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский, IPA: [ɪˈosʲɪf ˈbrotskʲɪj] was a Russian poet and essayist.Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and MountThis is an odd take for a comment on a Nobel Laureate, but as a former publisher and bookseller as well, I always wince when reading the halting "product descriptions" of Brodsky's works and the sparse, paltry treatment of his bio, character and accomplishment. He was such a hugely magnanimous talent with a fascinating personal history, it seems to me he would be more accessible and more widely read/appreciated if he'd been more generously handled by his publishers with respect to publicity etc.
For about the first half of the book, I didn't really like the poems. They felt raw and discontent. But about halfway through the book, the tone of the poems shifted. That's when I noticed the dates. They are ordered chronologically. By the mid-1980s, the poems feel wise and hopeful. Then I got to thinking: if I lived in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, I'd probably feel pretty raw and discontent, too, especially if I had been sentenced to internal exile and physical labor (like Brodsky was). The
La risoluzione di scrivere una poesia doccasione ad ogni Natale ha prodotto nella carriera di Brodskij diciotto poemi, così suddivisi: sette tra 1962 e 1973, undici, uno allanno, tra 1985 e 1995. Due serie da un decennio ciascuna, quindi, con un intervallo tra loro di dodici anni. Nelle prime poesie il Natale (o anche la fine dellanno) è vissuto come occasione mancata, lamentando la povertà e la solitudine del poeta con una tristezza dapprima mesta, poi rancorosa, e solo negli ultimi anni
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