Brodsky Among Us

[Ellendea Proffer Teasely's] memoir of Joseph Brodsky, with its concise and penetrating character portrayals, and the depiction of the poet's journey from fifteen year-old school dropout to Nobel Prize winning poet, is itself a work of poetry and deserves to be included in both undergraduate and graduate programs of Russian literature. Marya Zeigler, Department of Defense, Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 62.3

Auteur
Ellendea Proffer Teasley is the author of Mikhail Bulgakov: Life & Work and co-founder of Russian Literature TriQuarterly and Ardis Publishers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.

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A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.