One poem by him says: "In the little town out of which death sprawled over the classroom map / the cobblestones shine like scales that coat a carp".
This poet says to the title figure of one poem: "You did see a jeweled Heaven / set in the wretched frame of men's low lusts". That poem by him describes a woodcutter whose "reins, sledge, night, his poor mount, / himself--will melt into a Scriptural dream". One poem by him says: "In the little town out of which death sprawled over the classroom map / the cobblestones shine like scales that coat a carp". He described someone sobbing in the snow whose "voice is needle-thin, / yet without thread" in one poem. He declared: "Freedom / is when you (*) forget the spelling of the tyrant's name" in another poem. One poem by him begins by saying that the title poet "has sunk in sleep...All things beside are sleeping too". Though not Tomas Tranströmer, the title poem of one of his collections begins: "I was born and grew up in the Baltic marshland". For 10 points, name this Russian-Jewish poet of "Elegy for John Donne" and the collection A Part of Speech.
This poet says to the title figure of one poem: "You did see a jeweled Heaven / set in the wretched frame of men's low lusts".
Joseph Brodsky