JOSEPH BRODSKY - "Writer is a Lonely Traveler" (1972)

A letter to "New York Times" editor by Joseph Brodsky. Translated by Carl Proffer. Brodsky "was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad 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. 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." The original, somewhat misplaced English text: http://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/says-poet-brodsky-ex-of-the-soviet-union-a-writer-is-a-lonely.html The Russian original: http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2000/5/brodsk.html