New Stanzas to August

The collections of poems by Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) "A Stop in the Desert" (1970), "The End of a Beautiful Era" (1977), "Part of Speech", "New Stanzas to August" (1983), "Urania" (1987) and "Landscape with Flood" (1996) were published in the... 1970s-1990s by the American publishing house "Ardis". The poet himself worked on the compilation of these books in collaboration with his friends Karl and Ellen Proffer, the founders of "Ardis". In this legendary publishing house, as well as in the publishing houses "Posev" and "IMCA-Press", numerous works of Russian literature were published for many years that could not see the light in the Soviet Union. Brodsky wrote about Karl Proffer: "He returned continuity of development to Russian literature and thereby restored its dignity... he saved many Russian writers and poets from oblivion, from distortion of their words, from nervous illness and despair. Moreover, he changed the very climate of Russian literature". The collection "New Stanzas to August", presented in this edition, includes poems from 1962-1982 years.