Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry a

"On Grief and Reason c"ollects the essays Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The

Biography -- Literary Criticism Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the l

With nearly 200 poems, several of them never before published in book form, this is the essential volume of the Nobel Laureate's work.

Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.