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"One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century."-Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides…
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Guy Davenport
This collection gathers 12 stories from three of Davenport’s early collections: Tatlin! , Apples and Pears , and The Drummer of the 11th North Devonshire Fusiliers , all chosen by…
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In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America’s major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the…
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Guy Davenport,Erik Reece
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare…
Andre Furlani
Guy Davenport, an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other…
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These four essays on the still life dip into the full history of this art form, touching on neolithic cave paintings, the Dutch masters, Cezanne, Van Gogh, even photography and…
Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport’s brilliant story collectionfirst published in 1979is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are…
A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among…
Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language. -Anne Carson
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These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from snake handling to Wallace Stevens.
The Death of Picasso is a collection of 27 essays and stories written and compiled by the award-winning eclectic, provocative, and masterful writer, Guy Davenport. This is a stunning and…
Erik Anderson-Reece,Guy Davenport,Eric Anderson Reece
Guy Davenport,James Laughlin
An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.
Professor Guy Davenport
Herakleitos,Diogenes
All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes’ words from various sources.Herakleitos’ words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of…
O Henry, Guy Davenport
Louis Agassiz,Guy Davenport
Selected writings of the remarkable teacher, lecturer, and scientist, Louis Agassiz, whose enthusiasm for natural history is communicated with vitality and precision. The editor’s introduction and notes at the beginning…
Guy Davenport,Benjamin Urrutia
Originally published under title: The logia of Yeshua: the sayings of Jesus. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, c1996.
Jesus was a street preacher who taught by way of sayings, or logia, using irony and paradox. His powerful words resound in this translation drawn from Greek texts, including the…
Paul Metcalf
The first of three comprehensive volumes to present the lifetime work of Paul Metcalf, one of the Black Mountain Writers.
O. Henry
Includes stories that discuss con men and tricksters and ‘innocent’ deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central…
Jonathan Williams
With photos and text, Jonathan Williams (poet, publisher, and raconteur) pays tribute to heroes of the spirit from Paul Strand and Buckminster Fuller to Wendell Berry and James Laughlin.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.
Lenard D Moore
Lenard D. Moore’s Long Rain is a book of exquisite tanka poems, similar to haiku, and short prose haibun, organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water.
James Laughlin
The long-awaited memoirs of New Directions’ founder. James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997…
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Carmina Archilochi
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Professor Hugh Kenner
An enlightening study of three writers, Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians begins with an explanation of the effect of the printing press on books. The book as book…
R J III Davenport
Ezra Pound,Austen Warren,Professor Guy Davenport
Contains The First Appearance Of Ezra Pound’s Ars Vivendi, And Contributions By Austen Warren, Jean Helion, Guy Davenport, Olivier Bernier And Others.
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal. Places Lost and Found is a treasury of distinctive and…
Guy Davenport,Judith Thurman
In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of…
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