Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nNotes on the Text\n1 What is it All About?\n2 “December in Florence”\n	2.1 The matter of meter and the force of form\n	2.2 “The doors take in air, exhale steam; you, however, won’t . . .”\n	2.3 “Sunk in raw twilight, the pupil blinks but gulps . . .”\n	2.4 “Cats check at noon under benches . . .”\n	2.5 “A man gets reduced to pen’s rustle on paper . . .”\n	2.6 “Quays resemble stalled trains . . .”\n	2.7 “In a dusty café, in the shade of your cap . . .”\n	2.8 “Taking in air, exhaling steam . . .”\n	2.9 “The stone nest resounds with a piercing squeal . . .”\n	2.10 “There are cities one won’t see again . . .”\n3 Three Nativity Poems\n	3.1 “Star of the Nativity”\n	3.2 “Nativity”\n	3.3 “Lullaby”\n	3.4 A delicate balance: Brodsky’s Nativity poetry\n4 Poèmes à Clef: M.B.’s Birthday\n	4.1 “The Polar Explorer”\n	4.2 “Minefield Revisited”\n5 Elegies\n	5.1 “In Memoriam”\n	5.2 “In Memory of my Father: Australia”\n	5.3 “August Rain”\n	5.4 “To a Friend: In Memoriam”\n6 Beyond Translation: “Centaurs” and Other Hybrids\n	6.1 Wordplay in translation and the Centauric self-portrait\n	6.2 “Centaurs”\n	6.3 A matter of (con-)sequence\n	6.4 Beyond translation: “Epitaph for a Centaur”\n7 Further Beyond Translation: “Sextet” and Other Excavations\n	7.1 “An eyelid is twitching . . .”\n	7.2 “Sometimes in the desert you hear a voice”\n	7.3 “For thirty-sixyears I’ve stared at fire”\n	7.4 “Where’s that?”\n	7.5 “Was the word ever uttered?”\n	7.6 “And I dread my petals’ joining the crowned knot”\n	7.7 “Letter to an Archaeologist” and the Translation-Creation-Continuum\n8 Themes Taking Root in Translation and Other Tendencies\n	8.1 Wet dreams\n	8.2 Hurtful horizons\n	8.3 More tendencies in translation\nBibliography\nIndex