Timeless: The Poetry of Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
The cover photo of Joseph Brodsky’s thick book Collected Poems in English shows the poet sitting on a simple wooden maroon-painted bench. Behind him is a two-storied old-fashioned building with what looks like stores on the bottom floor and apartments above. Lace curtains in the windows. A wrought iron balcony fence. The poet could be anywhere: in his birth city of Leningrad, now Petersburg, in Stockholm, Sweden, where he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987, or in New York City, where he lived, Paris or Berlin.