A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
I hunted this book down after reading Selected Letters: Guy Davenport and James Laughlin a couple months...
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- Pages: 139 pages
- ISBN: 9780811213363 / 811213366
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I hunted this book down after reading Selected Letters: Guy Davenport and James Laughlin a couple months ago. I'm a longtime fan of Davenport's curious, overly-learned literary essays (Geography of the Imagination; Every Force Evolves a Form; The Hunter Gracchus), although I find his fiction almost unreadable.This handsome monograph... Davenport embarrasses us: by his learning, his capability and, yes, by his clear obsession with naked boys. But Erik Reece is smart not to pander to these embarrassments. His clear, sharp sentences pat the pictures with careful curiosity, like bees attracted there by the bright colors; I felt the same gratitude at his descriptions of...