A Stop in a Desert (Russian: Остановка в пустыне) is the second book of poems of Joseph Brodsky and the first composed by the poet himself.

It is considered the result of the early works of the poet.

A Stop in a Desert is the first book of poems Brodsky, composed by himself.

Brodsky was a collection of the USSR, and the texts of the poems were secretly transferred to the United States.

In 1988, the publishing house "Ardis" second edition of the collection has been carried out.