A Part of Speech

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"A Part of Speech" is a poetry collection by Russian-American Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky that showcases his meditative, philosophically rich verse written during his early years in exile.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Joseph Brodsky NERFINISHED
authorAward Nobel Prize in Literature NERFINISHED
authorAwardYear 1987
authorNationality Russian-American
containsPoemsFrom Brodsky’s early years in exile
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly regarded in contemporary poetry criticism
genre poetry
hasAuthorRole Joseph Brodsky as poet in exile
hasForm meditative verse
short lyric poems
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryMovement late 20th-century poetry
literaryPeriod postmodernism
notableFor exploration of exile and language
integration of Russian and Western poetic traditions
originalLanguage Russian
publicationPeriod 1970s
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
relatedWorkByAuthor Collected Poems in English
Less Than One NERFINISHED
To Urania NERFINISHED
style formal
meditative
philosophical
subjectMatter cultural dislocation
personal reflection
political displacement
theme exile
history
identity
language
memory
metaphysics
time

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Joseph Brodsky notableWork A Part of Speech
Joseph Brodsky notablePoetryCollection A Part of Speech