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Watermark by joseph brodsky overdrive rakuten overdrive. Brodsky writes in watermark that water stores our reflections for when we are long gone. A collection of fortyeight essays on venice explores the citys meandering. His books include less than one, on grief and reason, selected poems, and many others. In his book watermark, brodsky wrote that water stores our reflections for when we are.
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. Watermark by joseph brodsky 1992 brodsky, a survivor of the gulag, went to venice in search of love. In this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of venice. Brodskys 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. Reading brodskys essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty and often very funny interlocutor wall street journal. Buy a cheap copy of watermark book by joseph brodsky. The city nobel laureate joseph brodsky called paradise. I love venice, this book is a little like carrying the island with me, complete with the smell of the canals, the cold saltwater, the mists in winter and the heady scent of rich dark coffee, on a freezing. Joseph brodskys list of 83 books you should read to have. See all books authored by joseph brodsky, including watermark, and so forth. In addition to the poets 1988 university of michigan commencement address that we posted last week, we bring you joseph brodskys requisite reading list, annotated with the poets handwritten notes. His direct maleline ancestor is joseph ben isaac bekhor shor. Memory, death, love, beauty, dreams brodsky touches on all of these in this wonderfully evocative book, says pd smith.
In this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiograph. Joseph brodsky has 177 books on goodreads with 27816 ratings. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. He received the nobel prize in literature in 1987 and served as poet laureate of the united states in 1991 and 1992. I knew nothing about the author or the book prior to reading it, and i still, know relatively little about this nobel prize winner. Brodsky was born into a russian jewish family in leningrad. Joseph brodsky writes about venice in a language i can totally empathise with. I love venice, this book is a little like carrying the island with me, complete with the smell of the canals, the cold saltwater, the mists in winter and the heady scent of rich dark coffee, on a freezing morning.
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