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Joseph Brodsky Collection
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Series Descriptions
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June 1, 1982
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1 letter
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This series consists of one letter written on June 1, 1982 by Joseph Brodsky spent to George Brockway editor of W.W. Norton publishing house. In the letter Brodksy urges Brockaw to publish his colleague Peter Viereck's manuscript Applewood.
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1972-1996
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3 folders
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This series is arranged in chronological order.
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This series contains an introductory essay written by Joseph Brodsky in 50 Poems by Osip Mandelstam published in 1977, typescripts of Brodsky's translation work on the poem "To Urania" published in 1980 and several poems published in the New York Times.
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1992-1994
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13 boxes
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This series is arranged in chronological order.
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This series includes 94 audio cassette recordings of Joseph Brodsky's lectures delivered as a Mount Holyoke College English and Russian faculty member in his courses Russian 230: Poetry in Translation: The Nineteenth Century taught in the spring of 1993 with transcripts, and English 265: Lyric Poetry taught in the spring of 1994. Also included are 55 CDs that are digital surrogates of the original audio cassettes, course catalog descriptions, lecture notes, course readings and student work.
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1993
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7 boxes
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1994
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6 boxes
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1973-2003
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1 boxes
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This series is arranged in chronological order.
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This series includes original and photocopies of Joseph Brodsky's published poetry, essays, articles and reviews in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Review and the New Yorker. Included are two interviews with Brodsky from 1986 and 1989, reflections from a former Mount Holyoke College student, Lynnette Labinger who visited Brodsky in 1970, articles that document Brodsky being awarded the Poet Laureate Consultant on Poetry to the Library of Congress or Poet Laureate in 1991, as well as programs and obituaries documenting Brodsky's death in 1996 and the Mount Holyoke College community memorial service held on February 20, 1996.
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ca. 1985-2010
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3 boxes
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This series is arranged in chronological order.
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This series consists of two 3 1/2 inch floppy discs containing Joseph Brodsky's course notes and records, one DVD recording of the 1985 Mount Holyoke College Commencement where Brodsky spoke as the ceremony's commencement speaker, 2 CDs recording panel discussions Brodsky participated in in 1985, a WGGB VHS television segment reporting Brodsky's Nobel Prize in Literature award in 1987, 3 audio cassette recordings of Brodsky reading his poetry, 1 VHS tape of A Maddening Space recorded for the New York Center for Visual History in 1991, 7 audio cassette recordings, 1 digital surrogate captured on CD of the Mount Holyoke College community memorial service honoring Brodsky on February 20, 1996 and 1 DVD recording of Mount Holyoke College's celebration of the 70th anniversary of Brodsky's birth that took place on October 8, 2010.
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