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NY 1993 Soft Cover First Thus Good 12mo-over 6?"-7?" tall. (USA) No markings, about Very Good. Black wraps, 135pp. American poet Brodsky writes a quirky account of his journeys ... to Venice, Italy in 48 short chapters. (0.9 JM FO 0/3. Read more Show Less

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In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters—each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years)—Watermark associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's architectural and atmospheric character. In doing so, the book also reveals a subject—and an author—readers have never before seen.

In his newest prose work, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters,...

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Overview

In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters—each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years)—Watermark associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's architectural and atmospheric character. In doing so, the book also reveals a subject—and an author—readers have never before seen.

In his newest prose work, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters, each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits, the narrative evokes the city's architectural and atmospheric character to reveal a subject--and an author--readers have never before seen.

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Publishers Weekly
As much a brooding self-portrait as a lyric description of Venice, poet Brodsky's quirky, impressionistic essay describes his 17-year romance with a city of dreamlike beauty that banishes nightmares. Praising Venice and its architecture as a triumph of the visual, the Nobel laureate uses his visits there as a touchstone to meditate on life's unpredictability, the appetite for beauty, death, myth and modern art ``whose poverty alone makes it prophetic.'' Waxing confessional, he declares, ``I am not a moral man. . . . I am but a nervous man . . . but I am observant'' and offers autobiographical asides about his youthful lust for an Italian communist scholar and a 1977 meeting in Venice with Susan Sontag. In his wayward forays amid canals, streets and cathedrals barnacled with saints, the eternal Venice shimmers through the fog, battered yet resplendent. (June)
Library Journal
The Nobel laureate's latest book is a paean to Venice, ``itself a work of art,'' which has welcomed him for 17 winters of reflection and discovery. Brodsky views his adopted city not as a tourist but with the keen eye of a poet, finding beauty (a recurring theme) in the juxtaposition of lacy Venetian facades with ``the anarchy of water.'' After this, he writes, ``Everything is a letdown.'' Moving lightly in its imagery from a string of pearls to the Milky Way, Watermark pays tribute in language worthy of this great city. Its irresistible style and grace combine to express a dream that afterward lingers like a treasured memory. Very highly recommended.-- Paul E. Hutchison, Bellefonte, Pa.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374523824
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 6/1/1993
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 135
  • Sales rank: 227,597
  • Product dimensions: 5.06 (w) x 7.72 (h) x 0.39 (d)

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Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.

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