Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky is one of the most outstanding, vivid, and distinctive poets of the 20th century. In 1987 Brodsky became the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, awarded for “all-encompassing work, saturated with purity of thought and brightness of poetry.”
The cycle of poems “Part of Speech” (1975–1976) occupies the most important place in Brodsky’s body of work and rightfully belongs to the treasures of both Russian and world poetry.