To Urania: Poems.

BRODSKY, Joseph.

Item Number: 139908

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For David Picasky from the Author Joseph Brodsky April 5th 1992 Morgantown.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration of a Roman sarcophagus depicting the nine muses.

Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, To Urania was Joseph Brodsky's third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, this collection features pieces translated by the poet himself and others, as well as poems written originally in English.