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Two Cities

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Two Cities
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Cynthia Zarin
SeriesEkphrasis
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 108
Category/GenreArt History
Prose - non-fiction
Literature - history and criticism
ISBN/Barcode 9781644230312
ClassificationsDewey:945
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher David Zwirner
Imprint David Zwirner
Publication Date 2 July 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome-each a work of art, both a monument to the past-and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ-a traveler moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her, we see, anew, the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon, and San Michele, the island of the dead; the Piazza di Spagna, the Tiber, the view from the Gianicolo; the pigeons at San Marco and the parrots in the Doria Pamphili. As a poet first and foremost, Zarin's attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice and Rome vividly to life for the reader. The sixteenth book in the expanding, renowned ekphrasis series, Two Cities creates space for these two historic cities to become characters themselves, their relationship to the writer as real as any love affair.

Author Biography

Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Orbit (2017), as well as five books for children and a collection of essays, An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History (2013). Her honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship for Literature, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Zarin teaches at Yale University.

Reviews

"...there is an art of withholding, as well as an art of disclosure, and Zarin reveals herself here to be a first-rate practitioner of it."--Christopher R. Beha "The New York Times"