Homage to Robert Frost
Joseph Brodsky. Farrar Straus Giroux, $14 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-374-52524-8
Three Nobel laureates reappraise the great poet. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 09/29/1997
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