A Part of Speech (Chast Rechi)

Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet, essayist, playwright, translator, and the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, as well as the U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991–1992. He wrote poetry mainly in Russian and essays in English. He is regarded as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century.

Joseph Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940, in Leningrad, at Professor Tour’s clinic on the Vyborg Side. His father, Alexander Ivanovich Brodsky (1903–1984), was a military photo correspondent;…

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