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[Brodsky]. Memorial Service for Joseph A. Brodsky May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996.

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5th December 2023, 19:00
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€ 260

pp. [5] 216×140 mm.
Single leaf folded to make four pages and a single leaf, printed on both sides, loosely inserted. Among the listed readers, three Nobel Prize winners: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Czeslaw Milosz, as well as Mark Strand, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Anthony Hecht and many others. In English and Russian.
Fine and rare.
Enclosed is a typewritten letter from the previous owner, Dantel Hoffman, a poet in residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 – March 30, 2013) was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.