Joseph Brodsky

JOESEPH BRODSKY, exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, is Five College Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. His collection of poems, A Part of Speech, was published in 1980; and a collection of essays, Less Than One, came out in 1986. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A new collection of poetry, Homeage to Urania, will be published in 1987.

- p. 283, The Best American Essays 1986.