Joseph Brodsky

Речь о пролитом молоке

Speech over spilled milk

St. Petersburg, 2004

578 x 220 mm

Speech over spilled milk by Joseph Brodsky contains

Karasik’s homage to a disappearing city: the

distinctively heavy wooden doors of the St. Petersburg

tenements that are increasingly being replaced by

null metal doors without character. The old doors date

from the time when the poet used to walk around

the city. His poem is printed in between lithographed

photographs of the doors (behind one of which the

poet actually lived). To read the poem, one must open

the doors. The 24 (folded) pages are bound between

plywood covers which are kept in a Plexiglas slipcase.

The book is printed in a 17 copy edition and was

published only after the poet’s widow consented.

Mikhail Karasik

Речь о пролитом молоке

Speech over spilled milk

St. Petersburg, 2004

210 x 140 mm