Iosif Brodsky. To Urania

Contents

• May 24, 1980 ("I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages...") (1980)
• To a Friend: In Memoriam ("It's for you whose name's better omitted---since for them it's no arduous task...") (1973)
• October Tune ("A stuffed quail...") (1968)
• A Polar Explorer ("All the huskies are eaten. There is no space...") (1977)
• Lithuanian Nocturne ("Having roughed up the waters...") (1974)
• Twenty Sonnets to Mary Queen of Scots ("Mary, I call them pigs, not Picts, those Scots...") (1974)
• North Baltic ("When a blizzard powders the harbor, when the creaking pine...") (1975)
• The Berlin Wall Tune ("This is the house destroyed by Jack...") (1980)
• Dutch Mistress ("A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals...") (1981)
• Allenby Road ("At sunset, when the paralyzed street gives up...") (1981)
• The Fifth Anniversary ("A falling star, or worse, a planet (true or bogus)...") (1977)
• Polonaise: A Variation ("Autumn in your hemisphere whoops cranes and owls...") (1981)
• The New Jules Verne ("A perfect line of horizon. Without a blot. A swanky...") (1977)
• Lines on the Winter Campaign, 1980 ("A bullet's velocity in low temperatures...") (1980)
• Café Trieste: San Francisco ("To this corner of Grant and Vallejo...") (1980)
• The Hawk's Cry in Autumn ("Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above...") (1975)
• Sextet ("An eyelid is twitching. From the open mouth...") (1976)
• Minefield Revisited ("You, guitar-shaped affair with tousled squalor...") (1978)
• Near Alexandria ("The concrete needle is shooting its...") (1982)
• Tsushima Screen ("The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes...") (1978)
• A Martial Law Carol ("One more Christmas ends...") (1980)
• Folk Tune ("It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up...") (1980)
• Roman Elegies ("The captive mahogany of a private Roman...") (1981)
• To Urania ("Everything has its limit, including sorrow...") (1981)
• The Bust of Tiberius ("All hail to you, two thousand years too late...") (1981)
• Seven Strophes ("I was but what you'd brush...") (1981)
• The Residence ("An attractive mansion on the avenue of Sardanapalus...") (1983)
• Eclogue IV: Winter ("In winter it darkens the moment lunch is over...") (1977)
• Eclogue V: Summer ("I hear you again, mosquito hymn of summer!...") (1981)
• Venetian Stanzas I ("The wet hitching post of the quay: a sulky hackney...") (1982)
• Venetian Stanzas II ("A sleep-crumpled cloud unfurls mealy mizzens...") (1982)
• Seaward ("Darling, you think it's love, it's just a midnight journey...") (1983)
• Galatea Encore ("As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't...") (1983)
• Variation in V ("Birds flying high above the retreating army!...") (1983)
• Letter to an Archaeologist ("Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter...") (1983)
• Kellomäki ("Dumped in the dunes snatched from the witless Finns...") (1985 )
• Ex Voto ("Something like a field in Hungary, but without...") (1983)
• Elegy ("About a year has passed. I've returned to the place of the battle...") (1985)
• The Fly ("While you were singing, fall arrived...") (1986)
• Belfast Tune ("Here's a girl from a dangerous town...") (1986)
• Afterword ("The years are passing. On the palace's pumice façade appears...") (1986)
• At Karel Weilink's Exhibition ("Nearly a landscape The full figure count...") (1984)
• "Slave, come to my service!" ("Slave, come to my service!" "Yes, my master. Yes?"...") (1987)
• In Italy ("I, too, once lived in a city whose cornices used to court...") (1985)
• In Memoriam ("The thought of you is receding like a chambermaid given notice...") (1985 )
• Gorbunov and Gorchakov ("So, what'd you dream of this time, Gorbunov?"...") (1968)
• Notes