布洛茨基(Joseph Brodsky,1940-1996)的《诗集英文版》(Collected Poems in English)于去年出版。这本集子虽然厚达540页(不包括己选入出版于1973年他的第一本英译诗集Selected Poems中的作品),却只占他全部俄文诗作的三分之一。布氏被公认为是俄罗斯二十世纪下半叶最伟大的诗人,这本诗集的出版对于俄罗斯诗歌的非俄语读者当是一件大事。布氏的一生极富传奇性,但这传奇性少有浪漫的色彩,而更多时代和社会留下的伤痕(虽然他从不认为自己是牺牲者)。他十五岁辍学,在苏联各地流浪打工为生,干过工厂和停尸房的小工。十八岁开始写诗。不久他的那些不尽符合 Collected Poems in English was published last year by Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). Although amassed as thick as 540 pages (excluding works that have been selected for publication in Selected Poems, his first English-language collection of poems published in 1973), this book represents only one-third of all his Russian poetry. Brigham Young was recognized as the greatest poet in Russia in the second half of the twentieth century, and the publication of this collection of poems was a major event for non-Russian readers of Russian poetry. Brigitte’s life was legendary, but it was less romantic in its legendary nature, and scarred by more times and society (though he never considered himself a sacrifice). He dropped out of school at the age of fifteen, working as a vagrant worker in various parts of the Soviet Union, working in factories and morgues. At the age of eighteen began to write poetry. Not long after those of his match