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FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1987
Brodsky
Continued from Page 20
ing to Vienna to bring him an
American visa.
The gifted but rejected son
of the Soviet Union became
Ann Arbor's adopted child.
Staying a total of about four
years, it is there that he was
weaned on Western ways,
learning (or attempting to
learn) to drive a car, (he fail-
ed his first driving test),
balance a checkbook and gain
proficiency in American
slang.
A chain-smoker even today,
who has already undergone
two heart bypass operations,
Brodsky is remembered in
Ann Arbor as an unpreten-
tious, good-natured man who
could joke about everything,
spending much of his time in
an upstairs Ann Arbor apart-
ment, smoking cigarettes and
tapping away on an old Rus-
sian typewriter.
From Michigan he moved
on to New York and accepted
a teaching position at Mt.
Holyoke College in
Massachusetts.
But in his "home town" of
Ann Arbor, professors, ad-
ministrators and local
residents are hailing the ac-
complishments of Brodsky, so-
meone they refer to as "one of
our own."
"He's an extremely creative
person, well-deserving of the
prize," said U-M President
Harold Shapiro. "I'm very
glad, U-M played a role. It was
very nice to have him here. It
was great."
"Everybody expected great
things from him," said Mary
Ann Szporluk, an editor at
Ardis Publishers, which has
published five of Brodsky's
books in the last ten years
and is presently reprinting
some of Brodsky's older, out-
of-print titles. "He's just so in-
tellectually exciting to be
around."
Last summer, during the In-
ternational Book Fair in
Moscow, the Soviet
authorities confiscated 50 of
the Ardis Publishers' titles
brought in for the fair, in-
cluding Brodsky's, which
Szporluk said were in high
demand.
Though one of the most
popular poets in Russia, only
four of Brodsky's poems have
been legally published there.
Countless copies of his poetry
and essays have been publish-
ed in well-thumbed bootleg
versions. However, even
before the prize was announc-
ed, Novy Mir, a leading
literary publication, re-
quested permission to publish
some of Brodsky's work.
To those who knew Brodsky,
his decision to go West rather
to Israel was not a surprise.
Brodsky appeared more in-
terested in Western culture
Joseph Brodsky: "Now I know I'm
in the west."
than Jewish culture. Filling
his Leningrad room with
Beatles albums and other
Western memorobilia, Brod-
sky once described himself as
"part Jew, part Russian, part
Christian . . . in short, bad
Jew."
Said his close friend
Holtzman: "He's a poet of the
world. He has trouble appear-
ing as a Jewish poet. He can't
be so restricted."
Holtzman has tried for
years to convince Brodsky to
visit Israel. "In Israel he
would be a sensation in his _
readings in Russian," said
Holtzman. "He has given me
his word that one day he will
travel there."
Brodsky prefers to describe
himself as a Russian poet in
exile, still longing to return
home to Russia, especially to
see his 20-year-old son An-
drei, who lives in Leningrad
and who he has not seen in 15
years. Upon hearing of the
award last week while vaca-
tioning in London, Brodsky
expressed hope that the
Nobel Prize, coupled with the
new Soviet policy of glasnost
or openness, might create an
opportunity for him to return
to Leningrad.
For more than a decade,
with the help of high-ranking
U.S. politicians, Brodsky ap-
pealed for the release of his
ailing parents in Leningrad
so that they may join him in
America. They were denied
exit visas and both died in the
last five years. Brodsky never
saw them again.
Brodsky will receive
$340,000 in prize money,
which he says he's planning
to spend. However, local
friends say the extra money
won't change the poet's style
at all. "He still dresses poor
and lives poor," said
Holtzman. "He doesn't spend
money on himself. He came
from little and America
hasn't spoiled Joseph Brod-
sky."