So Forth: Poems.

New York, NY Farrar Straus Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1996. Paperback First Edition Thus (1996), so stated. First published in hardcover in 1994. First Edition Thus (1996), so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows very mild wear to the lower front corner tip; several pages have been mildly bent at the upper corner tip (not really a crease, but a mild bend); faint coffee-like staining to the top edge of the text block and a similar, if even fainter stain to the upper fore-edge; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of creases to the panels. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 0.45 inches). 132 pages. Language: English. Weight: 8 ounces. First published in hardcover in 1994. Trade Paperback. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and at universities including Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and Michigan. Throughout his career he wrote in Russian and English, self-translating and working with eminent poet-translators.Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.