Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky
Fellowship of Poets
Gross, Irena Grudzinska
Venclova, Tomas (FRW)
Hardcover
List Price: $40.00
booksXYZ price: $34.40
$1.72 of your order (5%) will be donated to the school of your choice.
VIEW MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS ONE
Submit a book review
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky. The dual portrait of these poets and the elucidation of their attitudes toward religion, history, memory, and language throw a new light on the upheavals of the twentieth-century. Gross also incorporates notes on both poets relationships to other key literary figures, such as W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, and Derek Walcott.
AUTHOR BIO
Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Princeton University.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A compellingly interesting book."-Rosanna Warren, Boston University
FOR RELATED BOOKS
Literary Criticism Books :: Poetry Books
MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300149379
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300149371
Dewey Decimal: 891.8/58709
Library of Congress: 2009015993
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 362
