- Essays, History and criticism, Modern Poetry, Russian literature
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Character-led, spare, prestige and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph Brodsky
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Viking
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780141180113
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Joseph (Iosif) Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
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