From Russian With Love : Joseph Brodsky in English; Pages from a Journal 1996-97

PREFACE 7(2) First Meeting: My Unreliable Memory 9(7) "Would you want to be judged by these?" 16(3) Reading in Iowa City, Iowa 19(3) Cats 22(2) "A Part of Speech": Misunderstandings 24(3) "Tenderly Yours" 27(2) Having it All: His Own Idiolect 29(6) Interlude 35(1) Is Russian Translatable? 36(5) "May 24, 1980" and Reading Aloud 41(7) "May 24, 1980", the Brodsky Version 48(6) Translating Oneself 54(4) Brodsky Remembered 58(2) "The Poem" 60(4) "The Jewish Cemetery in Leningrad" 64(3) But Back to "May 24, 1980" and Tonic Verse 67(7) Something New 74(2) Jewishness 76(9) Another Look at "the Poem" 85(2) Recriminations 87(3) "A Part of Speech": Attitude Indeed! 90(2) "On Love" 92(4) Choices 96(7) Words Aloud 103(4) Proselytizing Students 107(4) The Self Projected 111(4) How Does Brodsky or Anyone Else Translate Brodsky? 115(2) Two Jews 117(4) Improvising the Whole: D.H. Lawrence 121(6) Buber 127(3) Rhymes Galore 130(4) Hopkins, Yes; Brodsky, No! 134(3) An Irish Tribute 137(2) Rhymes, Especially Feminine Ones 139(6) So Forth: Who is the Translator? 145(3) An Inscription 148(2) At Sea in English But Not in American: Rhymes 150(8) The Russianizing of Donne 158(6) Writing and the Man 164(2) The Essayist 166(2) On Not Saying Goodbye 168(2) Projects, Especially 19th-Century Russian Poetry 170(5) Pasternak: The Joys of English 175(4) New York: Home 179(4) A Sour Note 183(1) A Collective Goodbye 184(4) Zabolotsky in Brooklyn Heights 188(9) Last Conversation with Joseph 197(3) Defending the Bard 200(5) Former Students' Testimonies 205(2) Listening 207(3) The Shape of "May 24, 1980": Compensation 210(3) Brodsky into Brodsky 213(3) Tidying up JB 216(5) "May 24, 1980": Into the Lions' Den 221(3) Revising "A Part of Speech" 224(6) New Versions for Old 230(3) Leftover Comments on "May 24, 1980" 233(2) Against Formal Translation 235(4) Last But Not Least 239(3) POSTFACE 242(3) NOTES 245(6) INDEX 251