{"product_id":"to-urania-selected-poems-1965-1985-by-joseph-brodsky","title":"‘To Urania: Selected Poems 1965–1985’ by Joseph Brodsky","description":"\u003ch4\u003eGathering two decades of Joseph Brodsky’s poetry, \u003cem\u003eTo Urania\u003c\/em\u003e catches him across Leningrad, Lithuania, Rome, America, and his own relationship to history and myth. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume includes major sequences such as \u003cem\u003eLithuanian Nocturne\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwenty Sonnets to Mary Queen of Scots\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRoman Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e and the title poem, alongside shorter pieces translated by various hands, including Brodsky himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Books, London, 1988. First UK edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear and minor edge rubbing; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46236478177363,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_90.png?v=1789181694","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/to-urania-selected-poems-1965-1985-by-joseph-brodsky","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}