Joseph Brodsky © Nancy Crampton
We’ve noticed a surge of interest in Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky centered around the recent New York Times article “Venice in Winter” and the use of poetry as travel guide.
The following two poems were recorded at the Donnell Library Center on December 18, 1980. The poet Mark Strand reads in English, and Joseph Brodsky reads from the Russian.
“A Part of Speech (as for the stars they are always on)”
[audio:https://fsgworkinprog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brodsky_partofspeech.mp3]“A Season”
[audio:https://fsgworkinprog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brodsky_aseason.mp3]Courtesy of the Academy of American Poets (www.poets.org) and Mark Strand.
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