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Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.

Aired 04/08/2024 | Expires 04/01/2031 | Rating TV-PG

Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

Poetry in America

Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

4/8/2024 | 25m 21sVideo has Closed Captions

Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.

Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War artistic director Bryan Doerries, writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and scholars Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishtov, Jonathan Brent, and Joseph Ellis read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile.

Aired 04/08/2024 | Expires 04/01/2031 | Rating TV-PG

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Support for Poetry in America is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dalio Family Fund, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Deborah Hayes Stone and Max Stone, Nancy Zimmerman...

Poetry in America

Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

4/8/2024 | 25m 21sVideo has Closed Captions

Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War artistic director Bryan Doerries, writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and scholars Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishtov, Jonathan Brent, and Joseph Ellis read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile.

Aired 04/08/2024 | Expires 04/01/2031 | Rating TV-PG

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Support for Poetry in America is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dalio Family Fund, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Deborah Hayes Stone and Max Stone, Nancy Zimmerman...

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