This work contains a collection of essays by Brodsky, which have been written since he was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1987. It includes "An Immodest Proposal" written while he was Poet Laureate, in which he exhorts other poets to address a broad public and in meditations on the nature of exile and the future of Europe he considers the international scene with unmatched insight.
- ISBN10 0140250573
- ISBN13 9780140250572
- Publish Date 28 August 1997 (first published 31 October 1996)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 7 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 496
- Language English