{"product_id":"nativity-poems-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Brodsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMikhail Lemkhin\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eJoseph Brodsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristmas poems by the Nobel Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the \u003cbr\u003esteam out \u003cbr\u003eof the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team\u003cbr\u003eof Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar.\u003cbr\u003eHe was but a dot, and a dot was the star.\u003cbr\u003e--from Star of the Nativity \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as a Christian by correspondence, endeavored from the time he first took to writing poems seriously, to write a poem for every Christmas. He said in an interview: What is remarkable about Christmas? The fact that what we're dealing with here is the calculation of life--or, at the very least, existence--in the consciousness of an individual, a specific individual. He continued, I liked that concentration of everything in one place--which is what you have in that cave scene. There resulted a remarkable sequence of poems about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNativity Poems\u003c\/i\u003e six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet, essayist, and playwright \u003cb\u003eJoseph Brodsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.34 x 4.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726286680371,"sku":"9780374528577","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MUVHZGNyQW1DSjBmSXl0K1dOMXdEZz09.webp?v=1763733567","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/nativity-poems-bilingual-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}