In this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight short chapters-each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly twenty years)-Watermark associatively and brilliantly evokes one city''s architectural and atmospheric character.
Brodsky writes in Watermark that water -stores our reflections for when we are long gone.- This reissued edition of one of Brodsky-s most important titles, on the occasion of the late Nobel laureate-s eightieth birthday, allows the reader to visit the canals of Brodsky-s Venice and rediscover the reflection of the writer himself.
