MANY MOONS AGO THE DOLLAR WAS 870 LIRE AND I WAS THIRTY-TWO
That's the first sentence of
Watermark, an English-language essay by Russian emigré
poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) who has made
regular winter trips to Venice for 17 subsequent years in a sort of
a creative pilgrimage.
For GEO Traveler magazine
