Please join us on Friday, June 3 at 7p.m for a Round Table Discussion devoted to Joseph Brodsky’s opus. The purpose of this round table talk is to acquaint the participants with some information about life and works of Russian-American poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky believes that “a love lyric may be good or bad but it offers its writer an extension of himself”. In his Nobel Prize Lecture Brodsky states, ‘there are, as we know, three modes of cognition: analytical, intuitive, and the mode that was known to the Biblical prophets, revelation. What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is that it uses all three of them at once (gravitating primarily toward the second and the third). For all three of them are given in the language; and there are times when, by means of a single word, a single rhyme, the writer of a poem manages to find himself where no one has ever been before him, further, perhaps, than he himself would have wished for. The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe’. During our round table talk we will discuss Brodsky’s Nobel Lecture (1987) and some of his poems.