From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities Venice and Romeeach a work of art both a monument to the pastand on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situa 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 t