Brodsky in English
A deeply researched account of Joseph Brodsky’s evolution in English as a self-translator and a poet in translation Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his ...
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Northwestern University Press
“Zakhar Ishov convincingly argues that Joseph Brodsky’s ‘accented’ English-language poetry deserves to be taken seriously as an integral part of the poet’s legacy. Brodsky’s love affair with the English language resulted in poems and self-translations that, although disparaged as inept and unidiomatic, became essential for his creative mission.” —Adrian Wanner, author of The Bilingual Muse: Self-Translation among Russian Poets