Joseph Brodsky. Elegy to John Donne and other poems
Contents
Introduction
The artist
Cockerels
`Eternal fight...'
Gladiators
`Farewell...'
Verses about blind musicians
The statue
`Why is it we must yet again change places?..'
A Jewish cemetery by Leningrad
`You've finally come home...'
The garden
Pilgrims
A Christmas romance
`I can visit, once more..'
`The black firmament was lighter than those feet...'
I kissed those shoulders
`They tell me that today it's time to leave...'
Dialogue
A memorial to Pushkin
Fishes
Verses under an epigraph
Earth
To A.A.A.
Hills
Elegy to John Donne
`A gardener in a quilted coat...'
Towards the garden fence
Windows
To the new tenant
`The wheelwright had died...'
(1964)
A riddle for an angel
(1964)