Overview
On Grief and Reason collects the essays Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January, 1996. The volume includes his Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate DonGiovanni; his āImmodest Proposalā for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the United States; a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost; Brodsky's searching estimations of Hardy, Horace, and Rilke; and an affecting memoir of Stephen Spender.
The essays, composed in Brodskyās distinctive, idiomatic English, are inventive and alive. There are suggestive analyses of favorite poems by Hardy, Rilke, and Frost in this book, and a moving meditation on the figure of Marcus Aurelius.
The Nobel laureate, himself branded a āpseudo-poet in velveteen trousersā by Soviet authorities and expelled from his home country in 1972, writes boldly of the poetās place in society: āBy failing to read or listen to poets, a society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulationāof the politician, or the salesman, or the charlatan--in short, to its own. It forfeits . . . its own evolutionary potential. . . .ā This edition, re-issued on the occasion of the late authorās 80th birthday, prompts the reader to consider Brodskyās words with renewed contemplation of the current state of literature and the society in which we read it.
This book title, On Grief and Reason (Essays) - 9780374539061, ISBN: 9780374539061, by Joseph Brodsky, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 5, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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