Joseph Brodsky: The Soviet poet who loved America — and distrusted ‘equality’
“Illness and death are probably the only thing that the tyrant has in common with his subject. In this sense alone, the nation benefits from being run by the old man.” Those words, written by Joseph Brozky in 1986, drips with irony. “To be ruled by nobody,” Brozky wrote. Brozky, an exiled Russian poet, knew […]