Joseph Brodsky collection, 1988-1989.

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Joseph Brodsky collection, 1988-1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463013

The Joseph Brodsky collection contains collected materials relating to the life and work of Joseph Brodsky. The collection includes two printed commencement speeches by Brodsky and two poems inscribed to him by poet Mark Strand.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233327

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Strand, Mark, 1934-....

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Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...