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Title: Watermark by Joseph Brodsky ISBN: 0-374-52382-7 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ode to a floating, perhaps transient city
Comment: WATERMARK is an apt title for this splendid collection of thoughts and fugues on the city of Venice, a place where Brodsky returned yearly for seventeen years and where in the solitude of the winter months in this most desirable of tourist destinations he composed some of his best poetry and translations. Brodsky's title refers to the repeated traces (watermarks) the sea makes on the canals and decaying buildings of Venice, like pages from a book of history or of poetry, or a novel. He writes extended soliloquies about the surfaces of the water in the canals and in the surrrounding sea that softly and surely continues to submerge Venice. He also writes colloquies of conversations with Ezra Pound's widow and the subsequent memories and opinions of that controversial figure. His rambling discourses while strolling the narrow streets that follow the canals inevitably to the sea are rich in observation and philosophy. His love for Venice is always palpable. '...the whole city, especially at night, resembles a gigantic orchestra, with dimly lit music stands of palazzi, with a restless chorus of waves, with the falsetto of a star in the winter sky. The music is, of course, greater than the band, and no hand can turn the page.'
Joseph Brodsky is at his finest in much of this small volume. For those who love Venice by association or by dreams of history and the music of Vivaldi, Bellini, and the art of Tiepolo or Titian, this collection of reveries is a must. Elegant, charming, stimulating, and nostalgic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lover of Exile Literature
Comment: A remarkable synthesis of poetry and prose. His style reveals impressions rather than what he has seen. The best comparison that I can think of is a dream that you remember vividly.
Rating: 5
Summary: shimmering
Comment: For any reader who wants to recreate the mesmerizing effect of walking the watery streets of Venice, reading this book will do it. As you enter Brodsky's very personal meditation on the ancient city that has enchanted so many for so long, his thoughts become your own, and all at once you are there. Dipping into the pages of this book is an armchair traveler's paradise.
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Title: On Grief and Reason : Essays by Joseph Brodsky ISBN: 0374525099 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 10 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Less Than One : Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky ISBN: 0374520550 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Joseph Brodsky: Conversations by Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Richard Avedon ISBN: 1578065283 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky ISBN: 0374528381 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Conversations with Joseph Brodsky : A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century by Solomon Volkov ISBN: 0743236394 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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