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Unread 06-24-2022, 01:33 AM
Tim McGrath Tim McGrath is offline
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I was lucky to hear Joseph Brodsky read in Russian. He was very impressive, the real thing, as Henry James would say..

And someone mentioned Hart Crane's great ode to Brooklyn Bridge, which speaks for itself.

O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

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I heard Brodsky read too, Tim, before a large auditorium in Ann Arbor. My Russian wasn’t good enough then to pick up much, and all I remember is that he had a sing-songy style of recitation. That’s traditional for Russian poets, but it annoyed me at the time. Now I’d probably like it. I really regret not meeting Brodsky. I knew one of his best friends, and it wouldn’t have been too hard to arrange a meeting if I had made half an effort. Thankfully, we can meet him in his poems.

Carl

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Was he from St Petersburg? That’s my memory. Or i guess Leningrad.

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Yes, Brodsky was a native of Leningrad. One of the apartments he lived in is now a museum that I haven’t gotten around to visiting. An old friend of mine (now gone) did a bizarre monument to him that’s hidden away in the courtyard of a university building. It’s based on an exhibit in the Akhmatova Museum of the actual suitcase that Brodsky left Russia with in 1972, carrying a typewriter, two bottles of vodka and a collection of poems by John Donne.

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I’ll guess that’s the typewriter he donated to the Nobel Museum. We saw it yesterday.

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