Joseph Brodsky

Also known as Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

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Joseph Brodsky was a poet, translator, essayist, and playwright born in Saint Petersburg on 24 May 1940. He held citizenship in the Soviet Union and the United States, and was stateless at various times. His native language was Russian, and he also spoke English. Brodsky worked as an employee of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Michigan. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. His works include *Песнь маятника*, *Rozenḳrantz ṿe-Gildenśṭern metim*, *Vid s kholma*, *Shirim rishonim ṿa-aharonim*, and *Stikhotvorenii͡a i ėsse*. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Brodsky died of myocardial infarction in Brooklyn on 28 January 1996. He is buried in the Cemetery of San Michele.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 24 May 1940
Died: 28 January 1996
Works: 211

Top works

Песнь маятника
Rozenḳrantz ṿe-Gildenśṭern metim
Vid s kholma
Shirim rishonim ṿa-aharonim .
Stikhotvorenii͡a i ėsse

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Film & TV

Writing · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters.

Known for

Brodsky Is Not a Poet — himself2016
Walks with Brodsky — Self1994
Case of Joseph Brodsky — Self (archive footage)1991
From Moscow to Pietushki — himself1990

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1940
Active to: 1996

british string quartetchamber musicstring quartet

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 659
Total plays: 2,198

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,291x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,548x
Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,815x
When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,519x
CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
· 1985 · cited 19,723x

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Quotes

“For darkness restores what light cannot repair. There we are married, blest, we make once more the two-backed beast and children are the fair excuse of what we're naked for.”
“You know, when you go outside on the streets after having spent the day writing, you feel like a foreign body, even in your own country. This sensation perhaps feels more natural when you are really outside your country.”
“This is just one example of the trimming of the self that — along with the language itself, where verbs and nouns changed places as freely as one dare to have them do so — bred in us such an overpowering sense of ambivalence that in ten years we ended up with a willpower in no way superior to a seaweed’s.”
“The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.”
“It is the army that finally makes a citizen of you; without it you still have a chance, however slim, to remain a human being.”
“As you pour yourself a scotch,crush a roach, or scratch your crotch, as your hand adjusts your tie, people die.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1987
“for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”

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Encyclopedic overview

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and at universities including Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and Michigan. 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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