Joseph Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996.
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.
"Kline emerges as human, warm and
vividly idiosyncratic in the pages of Haven's volume."
-Stephanie Sandler, The Times
Literary Supplement
