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18.02.2008 - Interpretation by dali48
Brodsky died of a heart attack in New York in 1996 (56 years old)...
Brodsky's parents were not allowed to travel to the West to see him - They died in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)...
I want that Maria Volpert and Alexander Brodsky become reality in "a foreign code of conscience"...
This will make them not living again - but the English grammar can at least be a better escape route from the chimneys of the crematoria of the State than the Russian...
Later works of the poet reflected the idea of the coming of a post-Christian era - in which the contrast between good and evil will be replaced by moral ambiguity - Other preferred themes were loss and pain - exile and age...
In his new home Brodsky did not feel to be completely safe - disturbing visions penetrated into his head, even in peaceful Cape Cod (see e.g. Paul Celan - see traumatizations from the past - which continue to be effective etc. - d.48)...
The language was for him a means of civilization, superior to history, and more durable than any state...
Brodsky found in his exile and in his relationship to Leningrad similarities to Ovid's Rome, Dante's Firenze, and Joyce's Dublin - The text was written in 1987... (PAC)
He left school at the age of 15 and worked in a morgue, in a mill in the boiler room of a ship and on a geological expedition - During this time, Brodsky learned autodidactically English and Polish, and began to write poems... (Poets. org)
Brodsky was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, after he had spent 18 months of a 5-year sentence in a labor camp in northern Russia ...
18.02.2008 - Interpretation of dali48
Brodsky studied with the beloved Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. After his exile - he moved to America where he settled in Brooklyn and Massachusetts ...
Brodsky died in 1996 at his home in Brooklyn of a heart attack...
Prose: Less Than One (1986) - On Grief and Reason (1995) - Watermark (1992)... (Poets.org)
Akhmatova translated the works of Victor Hugo, R. Tagore, G. Leopardi, and various Armenian and Korean poets - and wrote memoirs of symbolist poet Alexandr Blok, the artist A. Modigliani and colleague Acmeist Osip Mandelstam... (Pegasos Author's Calendar)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was a Russian-American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. He wrote poetry in Russian. This short article about ...
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see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 and Climate Change since ca. 2000 and "Banking Crisis" 2008 and poor people and social diseases and speculation and homelessness and robots etc. - instead of UBI & Ecology - Uncontrolled capitalism produces evil as bees produce...
see dali48 and Climate Change and heat waves and dryness and burning and also floods and Hurricanes etc. - since ca. 2000 and despite Copenhagen 2009 etc. - instead of #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & UBI etc...