piece over and over in my mind. I don't agree with all of Stephens's contentions--he finds Joseph [Brodsky]'s poetry "too formal, too academic, too patrician." Academic? J.B. was an auto-didact who dropped out of school at 15, a Leningrad street fighter who was roughed up by the KGB. And I don't necessarily agree with this argument . . . at least I'm not sure I do:"Isn't that always the case with a good personal essay? It is the voice that seduces us, not the content; it is the rhythm of the prose that draws us in, not the thoughts necessarily."
from The Book Haven: M.G. Stephens on Brodsky: "It is the voice that seduces us"
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