...Mark Gamsa Abstract Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Letters from the Ming Dynasty” (1977) stands out among his work for its prominent Chinese theme. This essay considers the poem against the background of some distant European precedents in order to situate it in the history of world literature. It explains...

... pp. $24.95. Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degentration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918. Cam- bridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context, 1989. 275 pp. $39.50. Polukhina, Valentina. Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge...

..., or for what purpose? And when we say, as we did just a moment ago, “to identify a modernism” or more simply “to identify modernism,” are we making a statement of the same order as when we say that Joseph Priestley identified the gas known as oxygen in 1774? Oxygen certainly was out there in the world...

..., or for what purpose? And when we say, as we did just a moment ago, “to identify a modernism” or more simply “to identify modernism,” are we making a statement of the same order as when we say that Joseph Priestley identified the gas known as oxygen in 1774? Oxygen certainly was out there in the world...

..., or for what purpose? And when we say, as we did just a moment ago, “to identify a modernism” or more simply “to identify modernism,” are we making a statement of the same order as when we say that Joseph Priestley identified the gas known as oxygen in 1774? Oxygen certainly was out there in the world...

..., or for what purpose? And when we say, as we did just a moment ago, “to identify a modernism” or more simply “to identify modernism,” are we making a statement of the same order as when we say that Joseph Priestley identified the gas known as oxygen in 1774? Oxygen certainly was out there in the world...

..., or for what purpose? And when we say, as we did just a moment ago, “to identify a modernism” or more simply “to identify modernism,” are we making a statement of the same order as when we say that Joseph Priestley identified the gas known as oxygen in 1774? Oxygen certainly was out there in the world...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

... that she would add Kafka and Joseph Brodsky. One senses in 516 MLQ ❙ December 2003 this proposal a dissatisfaction with the stark polarities and exclusively West- ern orientation in much of the debate over modernism versus postmod- ernism, as well as a desire...

..., collective translation, and dissemination via social media platforms, but some also embody their poetics through performances, at times in dangerous or illegal circumstances. Their educational standing likewise ranges from autodidact (Skidan, like Joseph Brodsky before him, never finished high school...