Joseph Brodsky. Elegy to John Donne and other poems

Contents

• Introduction
• The artist
• Cockerels
• `Eternal fight...'
• Gladiators
• `Farewell...'
• Verses about blind musicians
• The statue
• `Why is it we must yet again change places?..'
• A Jewish cemetery by Leningrad
• `You've finally come home...'
• The garden
• Pilgrims
• A Christmas romance
• `I can visit, once more..'
• `The black firmament was lighter than those feet...'
• I kissed those shoulders
• `They tell me that today it's time to leave...'
• Dialogue
• A memorial to Pushkin
• Fishes
• Verses under an epigraph
• Earth
• To A.A.A.
• Hills
• Elegy to John Donne
• `A gardener in a quilted coat...'
• Towards the garden fence
• Windows
• To the new tenant
• `The wheelwright had died...' (1964)
• A riddle for an angel (1964)