Part of speech

Collections of the poems of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) "Stop in the desert" (1970), "end of the beautiful era" (1977), "part of speech", "new stations by August" (1983), "Uranius" (1987) and" Landscape with flooding "(1996) were published in the 1970-1990s in the American publishing house" Ardis". The poet himself worked on the preparation of these books in collaboration with his friends Carl and Ellanda Proffer, the founders of "Ardis". In this legendary publishing house, as in the publishing houses" sowing and "Imca-Press", many years have come out of the works of Russian literature who could not see the light in the Soviet Union. Brodsky wrote about Carla Proffer: "He returned the Russian literature continuity of development and thus restored her dignity ... he saved numerous Russian writers and poets from oblivion, from distorting their words, from nervous disease and despair. Moreover, he changed the climate of Russian literature. In the collection "part of the speech", submitted in this edition, the poems of 1972-1976 were included