{"id":5673,"date":"2007-04-23T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2007-04-23T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:41:00","slug":"who-enrolled-you-to-be-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/who-enrolled-you-to-be-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Who enrolled you to be a poet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
While writing my previous post<\/a>, I went across to Joseph Brodsky’s Wikipedia page<\/a>, and found this fascinating conversation there, from his 1964 trial in the Soviet Union:<\/p>\n Judge<\/b>: And what is your profession, in general? Hmm. Now, before you ask who enrolled me to be a blogger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While writing my previous post<\/a>, I went across to Joseph Brodsky’s Wikipedia page<\/a>, and found this fascinating conversation there, from his 1964 trial in the Soviet Union:<\/p>\n Judge<\/b>: And what is your profession, in general? Hmm. Now, before you ask who enrolled me to be a blogger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I am a poet and a literary translator.
\nJudge<\/b>: Who recognizes you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: No one. Who enrolled me in the ranks of humankind?
\nJudge<\/b>: Did you study this?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: This?
\nJudge<\/b>: How to become a poet. You did not even try to finish high school where they prepare, where they teach?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I didn’t think you could get this from school.
\nJudge<\/b>: How then?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I think that it … comes from God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I am a poet and a literary translator.
\nJudge<\/b>: Who recognizes you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: No one. Who enrolled me in the ranks of humankind?
\nJudge<\/b>: Did you study this?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: This?
\nJudge<\/b>: How to become a poet. You did not even try to finish high school where they prepare, where they teach?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I didn’t think you could get this from school.
\nJudge<\/b>: How then?
\nBrodsky<\/b>: I think that it … comes from God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n