On Grief and Reason: Essays (FSG Classics) Paperback – April 10, 1997

Joseph Brodsky have not disappointed me.He had a great verve , a unique intuition and a very special way to figure things out .Curiosity : when I read " Speech on a stadium ",I realized where the famous commencement speech " About the sunscream " comes from.It is not the only inspiration, for sure, but it is there anyway.

I am so jealous of his talents in languages- he claimed to 'practically spoke no English' when he was in UMich, yet he could write essays with beautiful, poetic, and accurate English.

This edition includes an essay by Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), selected by the author. For the first time this collection was published in New York in 1995 and was the last book published while a great poet, translator, dramatist was still alive.

Starting with an essay about his early life in Pieter (Saint Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg), Nobel-prize-winning Joseph Brodsky explores a variety of topics in great depth, going behind appearances to lasting meaning.

I find the book both insightful but inspiring. He leads us though his life in simple honest fashion in a way that lets us feel what it was like as well as what happened.

Great of course

Excellent

This is a most perceptive, thoughtful and beautifully written book. For those of us gifted with a love of and facility with language and discerning thought, this book is truly both pleasurable and informative.Reading this, I feel as if I am sitting at a master's feet. May I learn from it.

great service and book

Great collection of essays by one of the greatest twentieth century russian writers....whose prose and insights are not only valuable but urgently needs to be heard and imbibed...