Bakc to Barbarism

28 / CHRONICLESnlustrative of something or other, theynare reluctant to identify any one ofnthem as great. Brodsky's poems do notnappear in anthologies of American poetry,nnot even Helen Vendler's Harvardn(1985), which strives to be ancompendium of received opinion.nI know of only one American poetncolleague who reads his . . .