About this Book

Poetry. In these 888 poems, Brodsky draws inspiration from his Faulkner scholarship and his visits to Oxford, Mississippi as he grapples with self-doubt that permeates his relationship to business, his family, even his identity as a poet. "Falling From Heaven is a painful and poignant offering."-Maya Angelou. "One cannot but respond with deep emotion and affection to the anguish and pain one finds in your poems"-Elie Wiesel. In 2004, Brodsky's You Can't Go Back, Exactly won the award for best book of poetry, presented by the Center for Great Lakes Culture, at Michigan State University. He is the author of sixty volumes of poetry and twenty-three volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and seven books of short fictions.