CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Introduction by Ann Kjellberg
  4. A Note on the Text
  5. Six Years Later
  6. I Sit by the Window
  7. Lithuanian Divertissement
  8. Nature Morte
  9. The Funeral of Bobò
  10. Nunc Dimittis
  11. An autumn evening in the modest square
  12. In the Lake District
  13. The Butterfly
  14. Lagoon
  15. A Part of Speech
  16. In England
  17. Plato Elaborated
  18. Letters from the Ming Dynasty
  19. May 24, 1980
  20. A Polar Explorer
  21. Dutch Mistress
  22. The Hawk’s Cry in Autumn
  23. Sextet
  24. Roman Elegies
  25. To Urania
  26. Seven Strophes
  27. Eclogue IV: Winter
  28. The Fly
  29. In Memoriam
  30. A Song
  31. A Footnote to Weather Forecasts
  32. Star of the Nativity
  33. In Memory of My Father: Australia
  34. Epitaph for a Centaur
  35. Vertumnus
  36. Transatlantic
  37. Daedalus in Sicily
  38. Clouds
  39. Portrait of Tragedy
  40. Törnfallet
  41. Homage to Chekhov
  42. A Tale
  43. View with a Flood
  44. Ischia in October
  45. In Front of Casa Marcello
  46. Reveille
  47. To My Daughter
  48. MCMXCV
  49. Flourish
  50. Taps
  51. Index of Titles and First Lines
  52. Also by Joseph Brodsky
  53. About the Author and Editor
  54. Copyright