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Joseph Brodsky

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Bad literature is a form of treason.


— Joseph Brodsky


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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.


— Joseph Brodsky


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Plays
1989: Marbles : a Play in Three Acts translated by Alan Myers with Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky dedicated much love poetry to Marina Basmanova:


Denunciation
In 1963 Brodsky's poetry was denounced by a Leningrad newspaper as "pornographic and anti-Soviet. ed.

He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale Cambridge and Michigan.

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