The Guy Davenport reader / Guy Davenport ; edited and with an afterword by Erik Reece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davenport, Guy.

Contributor:

Reece, Erik, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2013

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2013]

Contents:

Stories: Robot ; The aeroplanes at Brescia ;The Richard Nixon Freischutz rag ; A field of snow on a slope of the Rosenberg ; The death of Picasso ; Bronze leaves and red ; A gingham dress ; Jonah ; And ; Belinda's world tour ; Gunnar and Nikolai ; The Concord sonata ; August blue ; Boys smell like oranges ; Veranda hung with wisteria

Essays: The geography of the imagination ; The symbol of the archaic ; Finding ; Ralph Eugene Meatyard ; Hobbitry ; The hunter Graccus ; On reading ; Spinoza's tulips ; A letter to the Masterbuilder ; What are revolutions?

Poems: The Medusa ; The resurrection in Cookham Churchyard

Poetry in translation: Sappho ; Anakreon ; Archilochos ; Duino elegy I

Logia in translation: Herakleitos ; Diogenes

Journals: Journal I ; Journal II

Afterword: Remembering Guy Davenport.

ISBN:

9781619021037

161902103X

OCLC:

816564378