Stickhotvoreniya i poemy [Longer and Shorter Poems]. Washington, DC: Inter- Language, 1965 [unauthorized]

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1 JOSEPH BRODSKY Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and emigrated to the United States in He began writing poetry in the 1950s but his works were not published in his native country until the 1990s. Five books of his poetry in Russian were published abroad: Ostanovka v pustyne (1970; revised 1989), Konets prekrasnoi epokhi (1977), Chast' rechi (1977), Novye stansy k Avguste (1983), Uraniia (1984) and Peizazh s navodneniem (1996). As an émigré he published three books of poetry in English: So Forth (1996), To Urania (1988), and A Part of Speech (1977). On Grief and Reason, his second collection of essays, was published in His first collection of essays, Less Than One (1986), received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986, and three of his essays have appeared in The Best American Essays. A long essay on Venice was published in English as Watermark in He is also the author of two plays, Marbles (1989) and Democracy! (1990, 1993). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991 and He was Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. He died in January, His Collected Poems in English were published in His poems in Russian are available in multiple editions from Azbooka Publishers. A comprehensive scholarly edition of his work in both languages is in process. The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund was founded in 1996 to implement the effort of his last years to create a Russian Academy in Rome.

2 BRODSKY, Joseph (Alexandrovich). American. Born in Leningrad, USSR, May 24, 1940; s., Alexander I. and Maria (Volpert) B.; student, Russian secondary schools until 1956; sentenced to five years in exile in Arkhangelsk, 1964; sentence commuted, 1966; entered involuntary exile, 1972, and, after brief stays in Vienna and London, established residence in the US; naturalized, Died in Brooklyn, NY, January 28, Formerly Poet in Residence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Visiting Professor at Queens College, Columbia University, New York University, Smith College, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College; Five College Professor of Literature, Mount Holyoke College ( ); Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature, Mount Holyoke College ( ). Doctor in honoris causa Amherst College, Colchester University, Dartmouth College, Oxford University, Silesian University in Kotowice, University of Keele, University of Rochester, Uppsala University, Williams College, Yale University; Premio Mondello (Italy), 1979; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, 1981; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1987; National Book Critics Circle Award (for Less Than One), 1987; Légion d'honneur (France), 1991; Poet Laureate of the United States, ; Knighthood in the Order of Saint John (Malta), Member: PEN, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Address: c/o Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York, NY PUBLICATIONS Verse Stickhotvoreniya i poemy [Longer and Shorter Poems]. Washington, DC: Inter- Language, 1965 [unauthorized] Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems, translated by Nicholas Bethell. London: Longman, 1967 [unauthorized] Ostanovka v pustyne [A Halt in the Desert]. New York: Chekhov, 1970; revised edition, Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1989* Selected Poems, translated by George L. Kline. New York: Harper, 1973, and London: Penguin, 1973* Konets prekrasnoi epokhi [End of a Beautiful Era]. Ardis, 1977* Chast' rechi [A Part of Speech]. Ardis, 1977* A Part of Speech. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, and London: Oxford University Press, 1980 [contents differ from Chast' rechi]* Novye stansy k Avguste [New Stanzas for Augusta]. Ardis, 1983* Uraniia. Ardis, 1984*

3 To Urania. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988, and London: Oxford University Press, 1989 [contents differ from Uraniia]* Chast' rechi: Izbrannie stikhi [A Part of Speech: Collected Poems], edited by Eduard Beznosov with Joseph Brodsky. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia Literatura, 1990 [contents differ from Chast' rechi, 1977]. Reissued with additional material, St. Petersburg: Azbooka-Klassika, 2007 Bog sochranyet vse [God Preserves Everything]. Moscow, 1992 [selected poems, translations, and drawings] Rozhdestvenskie stikhi [Christmas Poems]. Moscow: Nezasimaya Gazeta, 1992, revised edition 1996 Peresechennaia mestnost' [Covered Terrain], edited by Piotr Vail. Moscow: Nevasimaya Gazeta, 1995 Sochinenia Iosifa Brodskogo [The Works of Joseph Brodsky], Volume I-IV. St. Petersburg: Pushkin Fund, ; Posthumous: revised edition (Volumes I, II, III), 1997, (Volume IV) 1998, (Volume V) 1999, and (Volume VI) 2000 Peizazh s navodneniem [View with a Flood]. Dana Point, CA: Ardis*, 1996 So Forth. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996, and London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996 * Discovery (children s book), illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999) Collected Poems in English, edited by Ann Kjellberg. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000, and Manchester: Carcanet, 2001 Nativity Poems, edited by Ann Kjellberg. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001 *original material Plays Mramor. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, 1984 Marbles, translated by Alan Myers and the author. Cambridge University Press, Comparative Criticism, Volume 7, 1985, reissued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989 Democracy!, translated by the author. Act I: London and New York, Granta magazine, Volume 30, p. 199; Act II: Partisan Review, Spring 1993 (Volume LX: revised version published as offprint). Not definitively published in Russian Essays

4 Less Than One. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986, and London: Viking, 1986 Watermark. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, and London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992 On Grief and Reason. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996, and London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996 Other Editor, with Carl Proffer, Modern Russian Poets on Poetry: Blok, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Gumilev, Tsvetaeva. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1982 Editor, with Alan Myers, An Age Ago: A Selection of Nineteenth Century Russian Poetry. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988 Bibliographies George L. Kline, in Ten Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Russian Literature. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1977 Russian National Library, Iosif Brodskii: Ukazatel literatury na russkom yazyke za gl. St. Petersburg, 1997, revised 1999 Charys Craner, unpublished (?) Tom Bigelow, in progress Selected Critical Studies Foreward to Selected Poems, by W. H. Auden. Harper and Row, 1973 "A Struggle Against Suffocation" [review of A Part of Speech], by Czeslaw Milosz. New York Review of Books, August 14, 1980 "The Art of Poetry, XXVIII," interview with Sven Birkerts, Paris Review, Spring 1982 Poetika Brodskogo, edited by Lev Loseff. Tenfly, NJ: Hermitage, 1986 "Less Than One" [review], by Richard Howard. Boston Globe, June 8, 1986 "Magic Industry" [review of To Urania], by Derek Walcott. New York Review of Books, November 24, 1988

5 Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics, edited by Lev Loseff and Valentina Polukhina. London: Macmillan, 1990 "The Singer of Tales," by Seamus Heaney. New York Times Book Review, March 3, 1996 On absenting oneself, [review], by Michael Hofmann. Times Literary Supplement, January 10, 1997 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, edited by Cynthia L. Haven. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002 Iosif Brodskii: Opyt literaturnoi biographii by Lev Loseff. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 2006, reissued St. Petersburg: Vita Nova, Apppeared in English as Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life, translated by Jane Ann Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011