Rialto Invisible in this cheap night scene of the familiar bridge
the lives - the lies - we lived on both sides of the canal,
invisible the water's stench at low tide, the rotting debris
beneath the picture-perfect surface, invisible the adjacent market
still smelling of fish and ammonia, its slime of scales adorning
the ground, invisible, too, in this souvenir print, the inevitable
rat crouched under the pilaster, his throat quivering benignly in
the moonlight, the silvery glow a local specialty: filth disguised
as ornament. 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 varied and
unconventionally polyphonic work. The voices we hear in these poems
belong not only to characters like the mother of Tadzio (think
Death in Venice), or the companion of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, or the
Victorian prophet John Ruskin and his wife, Effie, but also to wall
moss, and sand, and - most especially - an authorial speaker who in
1965, at age thirteen, landed in Venice and never quite recovered
from the formative experiences that shaped her there. Ranging over
several stages of a life that features adolescent heartbreak and
betrayal, marriage and children, friendship and loss, the book
insistently addresses the author's desire to get to the bottom of
her obsession with a place that has imprinted itself so profoundly
on her consciousness.
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