Urania

The collections of poems by Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) "A Stop in the Desert" (1970), "The End of a Beautiful Epoch" (1977), "Part of Speech", "New Stanzas to Augusta" (1983), "Urania" (1987), and "Landscape with a Flood" (1996) were published in the 1970s and 1990s by the American publisher "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 "Possev" and "IMCA-Press", works of Russian literature that could not see the light in the Soviet Union were published for many years. Brodsky wrote about Karl Proffer: "He restored the continuity of development to Russian literature and thereby restored its dignity... he saved numerous Russian writers and poets from oblivion, from distortion of their words, from nervous disease and despair. Moreover, he changed the very climate of Russian literature." The collection "Urania", presented in this edition, includes poems from the 1970s and 1980s.