cOnce upon a time there was a little boy born in the most unjust country in the world and there was a city, the most beautiful on the face of the earth. So Brodsky in Escape from Byzantium describes his Leningrad who persists in calling Peter.
Iosif Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940 in St. Petersburg (photo Getty Images).
Gemini ascendant Libra, Iosif Brodsky was born with poetry in his soul and red hair as a contrarian. Mercury in Gemini ignites a childhood lived in the midst of the siege of Leningrad watching the bombings from the grates of the cellar. His father is at war, he with his mother. At school he doesn’t shine. He feeds on looks, echoes of words «the look leaves a trail on things».
It will live two existences. Up to 32 years in Russia accused of social parasitism, tried because poet. “How do you become a poet?” asks the judge. “It is a gift from God” is the answer. Then exile in remote areas of Russia. It does everything. From lighthouse keeper to geologist. But a Gemini hovers in the air, resists. At 32 he was expelled. He becomes a professor in the USA, Michigan. “Write like it’s the last thing you do in your life,” he urges his students.
In ’87 the Nobel Prize. Venus and Mars in Cancer are the hallmarks of great writers. “So the pen goes on the smooth paper of a notebook, and he doesn’t know how he ends each line.” In 1996 he died, and he chose Venice as his burial place. «What do you want if you can’t see how spring returns here».
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