BRODSKY, WON NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE.Byline: Sarah Christian Associated Press Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became poet laureate of the United States, died in his sleep Sunday. He was 55. The poet's wife, Maria Brodsky, called police to their Brooklyn home after failing to wake her husband, said Deputy Commissioner Tom Kelly. Brodsky was pronounced dead at the scene of an apparent heart attack, Kelly said. "He was the only Russian poet who enjoyed the right to be called a 'great' in his lifetime," Yevgeny Kiselyov, host of the Russian weekly news program "Itogi," told his viewers. Brodsky wrote both in his native Russian and in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote plays, essays and criticism. He once said American poetry had helped him survive years of persecution in the Soviet Union and "made me an American long before I arrived on these shores." "American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy," said Brodsky, who taught himself English. Brodsky, who was Jewish, was constantly in conflict with the Soviet authorities. In 1964, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor HARD LABOR, punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor. in the Arctic Circle region of Arkhangelsk on what Kiselyov described as "the absurd charge" of parasitism parasitism: see parasite. parasitism Relationship between two species in which one benefits at the expense of the other. Ectoparasites live on the body surface of the host; endoparasites live in their hosts' organs, tissues, or cells and often rely . In naming him poet laureate in 1991, James Billington, the librarian of Congress The Librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Librarians of Congress
He was poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. in 1972-73, at Queen's College of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in 1973-74, at the University of Michigan from 1974 to 1980. He was also a professor of literature at Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College (hōl`yōk), at South Hadley, Mass.; for women; chartered 1836, opened 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary under Mary Lyon, rechartered as Mount Holyoke College 1893. There is a noteworthy art museum on campus. in Massachusetts. John Donne," "Isaac and Abraham," "New Stanzas to Augusta," "Verses and Poems," "Song without Music," "A Stop in the Desert: Verse and Poems," "Less than One," "To Urania Urania (y  rā`nēə): see Aphrodite; Muses. Urania muse of astrology. [Gk. Myth. ," "Democracy" and "Watermark." CAPTION(S): PHOTO Joseph Brodsky Spent time in Soviet labor camp |
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