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Beyond the Isms: Joseph Brodsky and the Persistence of Poetry
Well, he liked cats too! Poets who like cats are statistically good poets. :P Joseph Brodsky occupies a curious position in twentieth-century literature. Unlike Neruda, Plath, Ginsberg, Heaney, or even his fellow Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, he has never become a poet of popular quotation or public affection. His reputation among poets and critics has always been immense, yet he remains strangely absent from the wider reading public. The paradox is striking because Brodsky
Manu Kurup
Jun 186 min read
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