Brodsky monument will rise in front of U.S. Embassy in Moscow

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From Nobel Lectures ... (1987)
".. Who writes a poem, but wrote it not because he is counting on the posthumous fame, though it often and hoped that his poem will survive, albeit not for long. Who writes a poem writes it because the language he suggests, or simply dictates the following line . As a poem, the poet, as a rule, does not know how it will end, and sometimes appears to be very surprised at what happened, because often turns out better than he expected, his thoughts often go further than he expected. This is the moment when the future of language interferes with its present. There are, as we know, three methods of cognition: analytical, intuitive, and the method that was used by the biblical prophets - through a revelation. The difference between poetry from other forms of literature in that it uses all three at once (gravitating mainly the second and third), because all three are in the language, and sometimes with a single word, a rhyme writer of the poem can not be there, where before no one had been - and beyond, perhaps, than he would have wished. recordable a poem writes it above all because the poem - a huge booster of consciousness, thinking, attitude. Having experienced this acceleration once, a man no longer able to refuse to repeat this experience, he falls into dependency on this process, both fall into a dependency on drugs or alcohol . The man, who is in a similar function of the language, I suppose, and is therefore called ...."
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From the history of life in Soviet Russia Brodsky .. (EA)

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February 13, 1964 Brodsky was arrested on a charge of parasitism. February 14, he suffered in the chamber first heart attack. Since that time, Brodsky constantly suffered angina, which always reminded him of death (without interfering with the order to be a heavy smoker).
Two meetings of Brodsky's trial were zakonspektirovany Frida Vigdorova and content is made in the samizdat of the White Paper.

Judge: Your work experience?
Brodsky: Around ...
Judge: We are not interested in "approximately"!
Brodsky: Five years.
Judge: Where did you work?
Brodsky: The plant. In geological parties ...
JUDGE: How long have you worked at the factory?
Brodsky: Year.
Judge: What?
Brodsky: a milling machine.
Judge: And in general what is your specialty?
Brodsky: Poet, poet and translator.
Judge: And who is acknowledged that you're a poet? Who are you ranked the poets?
Brodsky: No one. (No calls). And who ranked me to the human race?
Judge: And you learned this?
Brodsky: What?
Referee: To be a poet? Not trying to finish high school, where they cook ... where you learn ...
Brodsky: I did not think ... I do not think it provides education.
Judge: What?
Brodsky: I think it's ... (confused) ... from God ...
Judge: Do you have a petition to the court?
Brodsky: I would like to know: what I was arrested?
Judge: This is an issue, not a petition.
Brodsky: So I have no application.

All the prosecution witnesses began their testimony by saying: "I am not personally familiar Brodsky ...", echoing the wording of a model bullying Pasternak: "I have not read Pasternak's novel, but condemn !..». Brodsky was sentenced to the maximum possible under the decree of "social parasitism" punishment - five years of forced labor in remote areas. He was exiled to Konosha region of Arkhangelsk region and settled in the village Norenskaya. In an interview with Volkov Brodsky called this the happiest time in my life. It is in exile Brodsky met with English poetry, including Uistenom Auden ......