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Reavey's remarkable foresight is shown by the fact that the anthology ends with seven poems by Brodsky, then in his mid-20s and condemned to hard labor after his famous 1964 trial for "parasitism"; in the introduction Reavey says: "Iosif Brodsky is perhaps the strangest and most isolated of the poets. In a sense, everything is still ahead for him..." Indeed, including a Nobel Prize and poetic immortality.