The poet Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and was expelled from his country in 1972, after which he settled in the United States. From there he traveled again and again Venice. He visited her for the first time at the age of 32, and at the time when he wrote the wonderful booklet Watermark (Siruela/Vienna) he had already stayed in the city 17 times, always in December. For the Nobel Prize, seeing a wave breaking on the shore at midni…
The poet Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and was expelled from his country in 1972, after which he settled in the United States. From there he traveled again and again Venice. He visited her for the first time at the age of 32, and at the time when he wrote the wonderful booklet Watermark (Siruela/Vienna) he had already stayed in the city 17 times, always in December. For the Nobel Prize, seeing a wave breaking on the shore at midni…