On Grief and Reason

by Joseph Brodsky

Book Overview

On Grief and Reason collects the essays that Joseph Brodsky wrote between his reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and his death in January 1996. The volume includes Brodsky's Nobel lecture; essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the notion of the poet as an inveterate Don Giovanni; his "Immodest Proposal" for the future of poetry, written when he was serving as Poet Laureate of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374539065
• ISBN13: 9780374539061
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Fsg Adult
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

On Grief and Reason: An essential book difficult to find at a reasonable price.

I haven't read this yet, only quotes. I have read poetry by Brodsky, and have also yet to read "Runaway Soul." This is an essential part of my education, and I was so happy to find it and I anticipate reading it with joy.

Brodsky on Frost

I do not know whether I will be able to read the pieces in On Grief and Reason. I had read the title essay, which says that Frost is rough and goes through his "Home Burial," in the New Yorker, I think, and saved it, and it had deteriorated. I bought the book for the essay. It is that important, Brodsky is that important. It is the best single reading of a Frost poem that I have ever seen, but good-better-bests is not the issue. It is full of assumptions that everyone should have about what poetry is. It is how to read poetry. Stuart Filler