The collection is currently the most complete collection of works by I. Brodsky, a Nobel laureate in literature. It includes not only works published in our country and in the West, but also those that previously existed only in manuscripts. The first volume includes poems from 1957-1965. The publication was prepared by the Pushkin Foundation, to which I. Brodsky transferred the exclusive right to publish his works within the former USSR. The editors thank A. Sumerkin for his kind permission to use in the work on this publication a copy of the second volume of the first edition of “The Works of Joseph Brodsky” (1992), containing the author’s correction