first edition. inscribed and signed by brodsky to his close friend Toby Holtzman: "My first and best part" and dated 17 July 1972. A collection of poems published abroad after he was sentenced to five years of hard labor for "social parasitism" in 1964. This edition is rumored to have been financed by the CIA. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and became poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he met the Holtzmans. Named poet laureate of the United States in 1991, he never returned to Russia. with--Group of 4 volumes, 2 of which are Inscribed and Signed: Selected Poems. Translated by George L. Kline and Foreword by W. H. Auden. First American Penguin Edition. New York, (1974) Less Than One. Uncorrected Page Proofs. Inscribed and Signed. New York, (1986) On Grief and Reason: Essays. New York, (1995) Collected Poems in English. Edited by Ann Kjellberg (and Inscribed and Signed by her). Uncorrected Proof Copy. New York, 2000.