Iosef Brodskii
Konets prekrasnoi epokhi: stikhotvoreniya, 1964-1971.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1977. First printing. 0882332635 114 pages.
Gray and blue softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
Rare first publication of this early work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) by the only publishing house outside of Russia dedicated to Russian literature in both English and Russian.
This Russian-language collection consists of poems written by the poet before leaving the Soviet Union and contains Brodsky’s famous “Letter to general Z” [“Pismo generalu Z”] written in 1968 as a response to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the title poem “The End of a Beautiful Era” (1969) and the 1967 poem on loss entitled “Speech over Spilled Milk” [“Rech o prolitom moloke”]. 
This collection was compiled by the author himself in collaboration with his friends Karl and Ellendea Proffer, creators of "Ardis".