Synopses & Reviews
This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination.More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature.
Synopsis
This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature.
Synopsis
This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination.More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature.
Synopsis
An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.
About the Author
As Bruce Bawer wrote in Bookforum, "the late Guy Davenport (1927-2005) left behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization, and to read any part of it--story, essay, or translation--is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement." His books include The Geography of the Imagination, The Death of Picasso, Herakleitos and Diogenes, A Table of Green Fields, The Cardiff Team, DaVinci's Bicycle, and many more.James Laughlin (1914-1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.W. C. Bamberger operates Bamberger Books, which keeps Guy Davenport's poem Flowers & Leaves in print. He lives in Whitmore Lake, Michigan.