Gathering two decades of Joseph Brodsky’s poetry, To Urania catches him across Leningrad, Lithuania, Rome, America, and his own relationship to history and myth. 

These are poems of wit, but within them they tremble. Brodsky is classical without being decorative, intellectual without ever quite drying out. There's flirt like movements between elegy and satire, landscape dances into metaphysics, political history enters the bodily, all often within the same poem.

The volume includes major sequences such as Lithuanian Nocturne, Twenty Sonnets to Mary Queen of Scots, Roman Elegies and the title poem, alongside shorter pieces translated by various hands, including Brodsky himself.

Penguin Books, London, 1988. First UK edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear and minor edge rubbing; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Very good condition.