Nobel Prize Writers

Tuesday 4 January 2011

1987 - Joseph Brodsky





So Forth (1996)
This quote from the poem Fin de Siecle characterises his poetry ‘It so happens I can’t// stand time that moves on.  Time that stand still I still/ can stand.’  There is in his poetry a sense that time stands still in a world of movement & a gesture can recall whole histories of life.  Epochs caught in a single movement, like whole worlds in rain drops.