Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Her Joseph Brodsky: Conversations was published in 2003. Her“Spirit of the Place”: Czesław Miłosz in California is forthcoming. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Her work has appeared in Russia's Zvezda and Colta.

• Table of Contents1. A Love Affair with Language2. The Leningrad Poet and “a gift fit for a king”3. Did the KGB Defend Russian Literature?4. The Poet in Exile: “I’ll live out my days . . .”5. The “Good Lexicon” Rule 6. Kline Takes up the Gauntlet7. A Lullaby, a Butterfly, and an Untranslatable Poem8. “What did you do in World War II?”9. Poems by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by George L. Kline 10. In Memory of a Poet11. Occasional Poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky12. A Bibliography of George Kline’s Translations of Joseph Brodsky’s Poems 13. George L. Kline ChronologyAfterword by Valentina Polukhina

“Kline emerges as human, warm andvividly idiosyncratic in the pages of Haven’s volume.” —Stephanie Sandler, The TimesLiterary Supplement

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Her Joseph Brodsky: Conversations was published in 2003. Her“Spirit of the Place”: Czesław Miłosz in California is forthcoming. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Her work has appeared in Russia's Zvezda and Colta.

• Table of Contents1. A Love Affair with Language2. The Leningrad Poet and “a gift fit for a king”3. Did the KGB Defend Russian Literature?4. The Poet in Exile: “I’ll live out my days . . .”5. The “Good Lexicon” Rule 6. Kline Takes up the Gauntlet7. A Lullaby, a Butterfly, and an Untranslatable Poem8. “What did you do in World War II?”9. Poems by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by George L. Kline 10. In Memory of a Poet11. Occasional Poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky12. A Bibliography of George Kline’s Translations of Joseph Brodsky’s Poems 13. George L. Kline ChronologyAfterword by Valentina Polukhina

“Kline emerges as human, warm andvividly idiosyncratic in the pages of Haven’s volume.” —Stephanie Sandler, The TimesLiterary Supplement

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Her Joseph Brodsky: Conversations was published in 2003. Her“Spirit of the Place”: Czesław Miłosz in California is forthcoming. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Her work has appeared in Russia's Zvezda and Colta.

• Table of Contents1. A Love Affair with Language2. The Leningrad Poet and “a gift fit for a king”3. Did the KGB Defend Russian Literature?4. The Poet in Exile: “I’ll live out my days . . .”5. The “Good Lexicon” Rule 6. Kline Takes up the Gauntlet7. A Lullaby, a Butterfly, and an Untranslatable Poem8. “What did you do in World War II?”9. Poems by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by George L. Kline 10. In Memory of a Poet11. Occasional Poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky12. A Bibliography of George Kline’s Translations of Joseph Brodsky’s Poems 13. George L. Kline ChronologyAfterword by Valentina Polukhina

“Kline emerges as human, warm andvividly idiosyncratic in the pages of Haven’s volume.” —Stephanie Sandler, The TimesLiterary Supplement