On grief and reason : essays / Joseph Brodsky.

Author/creator Brodsky, Joseph
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Description484 pages ; 22 cm

Contents Spoils of war -- The condition we call exile -- A place as good as any -- Uncommon visage -- Acceptance speech -- After a journey -- Altra ego -- How to read a book -- In praise of boredom -- Profile of Clio -- Speech at the stadium -- Collector's item -- An immodest proposal -- Letter to a President -- On grief and reason -- Homage to Marcus Aurelius -- A cat's meow -- Wooing the inanimate -- Ninety years later -- Letter to Horace -- In memory of Stephen Spender.
LCCN 94010872