I was in Venice last week and visited the frigid city cemetery on the Isola di S. Michele. About 10 meters from Pound and Olga Rudge is the newish grave of Joseph Brodsky, with a white-painted wooden cross and many scraggly flowers left by admirers. Readers of Brodsky's memoir of Venice in winter, called Aqua Alta in French and something like Watermarks in English, might remember that there are several passages about Pound and Miss Rudge, not all of them admiring. Cheers. Paul Montgomery Lausanne, Switzerland