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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph BrodskyAKA Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky

Born: 24-May-1940
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 28-Jan-1996
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Isola di San Michele Cemetery, Venice, Italy

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Social parasite turned Poet Laureate

    Scholar: Poet-in-Residence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1972-80)

    US Poet Laureate 1991-92
    Nobel Prize for Literature 1987
    Social Parasitism Five years labor, 1964-65 (commuted)
    Exiled 4-Jun-1972 from Russia
    Naturalized US Citizen 1977
    Open Heart Surgery (1979)
    Heart Bypass Operation
    Heart Bypass Operation (1987)
    Russian Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Smoking

Author of books:
Selected Poems (1973, poetry, trans. George L. Kline)
A Part of Speech (1980, poetry)
History of the Twentieth Century (1986)
To Urania (1988, poetry)
Less Than One (1986, essays)
Watermark (1992, essays)
On Grief and Reason (1996, essays)
So Forth (1996, poetry)
Collected Poems in English (2000, poetry)
Nativity Poems (2001, poetry)


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