Summary
Josif Brodski: What is needed for a miracle
In the poems of this unusual poet, real life, philosophy, science, art, feat, defeat, rise, fall - everything turns into verse, into verse of pain and despair. To the core, the urban poet, who is maximally individualized, feels the world as fleeting, he feels the hums as pain, as "our sufferings", "the hums are the loves that accompany us". For this poet, they are "cries and wails". In this vast, unfathomable poetic world, loneliness is one of the most significant themes. When he comes into contact with this loneliness and when it fills him, the reader will feel that he is in front of an apparently completely calmed world, under whose surface there is restlessness, searching, hopeless hope, despair...
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