Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was George L. Kline, a Bryn Mawr professor and war hero. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death.
Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was George L. Kline, a Bryn Mawr professor and war hero. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death.
Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford¿s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford¿s Hoover Institution. Her Joseph Brodsky: Conversations was published in 2003. Her¿Spirit of the Place¿: Czes¿aw Mi¿osz in California is forthcoming. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Her work has appeared in Russia's Zvezda and Colta.
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Table of Contents 1. A Love Affair with Language 2. The Leningrad Poet and a gift fit for a king 3. Did the KGB Defend Russian Literature? 4. The Poet in Exile: I ll live out my days . . . 5. The Good Lexicon Rule 6. Kline Takes up the Gauntlet 7. A Lullaby, a Butterfly, and an Untranslatable Poem 8. What did you do in World War II? 9. Poems by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by George L. Kline 10. In Memory of a Poet 11. Occasional Poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky 12. A Bibliography of George Kline s Translations of Joseph Brodsky s Poems 13. George L. Kline Chronology Afterword by Valentina Polukhina
Table of Contents 1. A Love Affair with Language 2. The Leningrad Poet and a gift fit for a king 3. Did the KGB Defend Russian Literature? 4. The Poet in Exile: I ll live out my days . . . 5. The Good Lexicon Rule 6. Kline Takes up the Gauntlet 7. A Lullaby, a Butterfly, and an Untranslatable Poem 8. What did you do in World War II? 9. Poems by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by George L. Kline 10. In Memory of a Poet 11. Occasional Poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky 12. A Bibliography of George Kline s Translations of Joseph Brodsky s Poems 13. George L. Kline Chronology Afterword by Valentina Polukhina
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