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    A Palpable Elysium

    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.

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    The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

    Guy Davenport

    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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    The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

    "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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    The Guy Davenport Reader

    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…

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    Twelve Stories

    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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    Objects On A Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature

    Guy Davenport

    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…

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    Poetry; Volume 15

    Guy Davenport

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art

    Guy Davenport

    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.

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    The Death Of Picasso: New and Selected Writing

    Guy Davenport

    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…

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    A Table of Green Fields: Stories

    Guy Davenport

    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…

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    7 Greeks

    Guy Davenport

    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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    The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories

    Guy Davenport

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    Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-80

    Guy Davenport

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    Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

    Guy Davenport,James Laughlin

    An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.

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    A Table of Green Fields

    Professor Guy Davenport

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    Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

    Edward M. Burns,Guy Davenport,Hugh Kenner

    The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 … A lasting treasure. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

    Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953 when…

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    Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by 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…

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    Selected Stories

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    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…

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    The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings; Selected, with an Introduction and Notes by 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…

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    Cabbages and Kings

    O Henry, Guy Davenport

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Paul Metcalf: Collected Works, Volume I: 1956-1976

    Paul Metcalf

    The first of three comprehensive volumes to present the lifetime work of Paul Metcalf, one of the Black Mountain Writers.

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    Cabbages and Kings

    O Henry, Guy Davenport

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    The Logia Of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus

    Guy Davenport,Benjamin Urrutia

    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…

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    The Sayings Of Jesus: The Logia of Yeshua

    Guy Davenport,Benjamin Urrutia

    Originally published under title: The logia of Yeshua: the sayings of Jesus. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, c1996.

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    Long Rain

    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.

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    Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos

    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…

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    Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos

    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…

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    Byways

    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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    Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians

    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…

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    Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy

    Professor Hugh Kenner

    Originally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

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    Memoirs of a Regular Guy

    R J III Davenport

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    Gadfly: December, 1959

    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.

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    Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    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…

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    Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    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…

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    A Balthus Notebook

    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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