Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Light foxing is present on the edges of the pages. Binding is solid. A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands. Brodsky was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. Clean copy. Record # 33970
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