To forget Venice /
To Forget Venice is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is both adored and reviled by the speakers in this...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- I
- Scirocco: Otello in Venice
- The Ruskins
- 1. John Ruskin Confronts the Real Female Nude (April 10, 1847)
- 2. Effie Gray Ruskin Writes to Her Mother on Christmas Eve, 1850
- Tadzio's Mother
- Mrs. Casanova
- Titian's Magdalena Speaks from Lazzaretto Nuovo, 1576
- To Lenin from Venice
- Wall Moss
- II
- Crossing
- Arrivata
- Rialto
- Rooftop: Aerial View
- Pact, 1968
- Moon Walk
- Canzoncino: Air for My Father
- Urn
- III
- Ambition of Sand
- At the Guggenheim Museum, Venice
- Lido
- Tramonto
- At Sea
- Callas in Venice
- La Tempesta
- Aubade
- What I Meant To Say: In Memory of Michael Mazur, 1935-2009
- Dream of the Chalice
- Fondamente Nove
- The Jewish Cemetery, Lido
- Brodsky at San Michele, 1996
- To Forget Venice
- Notes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I
- II
- III
- Notes