BRODSKY IOSIF (1940-1996) Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Verses and Poems]. Washington; New York: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965. - 239 pp.; 20x14 cm. The first book by the poet.

Publisher's typographic cover. In very good condition. Minor soiling on the cover. This famous edition became the first published collection of I. Brodsky's verses and poems. The collection was released in March 1965 without the author's knowledge and consent, as he was serving his exile in a remote village in the Arkhangelsk region under the sentence for "parasitism." At the beginning of the book, there is an article by Georgy Stukov, a pseudonym used by the compiler of the collection, Gleb Struve, a professor of Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, who prepared the book for publication. The book is based on 'samizdat' copies of the poet's works, printed on a typewriter and circulated for several years. The first book by the poet. Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (1940-1996) was a Russian and American poet, essayist, playwright, and translator. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and was the Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991-1992.