To mark the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky’s eightieth birthday, FSG is publishing a new paperback, Selected Poems, edited and introduced by the poet’s literary executor, Ann Kjellberg. This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, as well as poems written in English or translated by the author himself. Selected Poems allows the reader to survey Brodsky’s tumultuous life and illustrious career and revisit his most notable and poignant work as a poet.