The cover of Apples and Pears by Guy Davenport

Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, painter, illustrator, intellectual, and teacher. ImageMetadata File history File links Apples_and_pears_Davenport. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ... A teachers room in a Japanese middle school, 2005. ...

Life and Work

Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina in the foothills of Appalachia on November 23, 1927. His father was an agent for the Railway Express Agency. Davenport said that he became a serious reader at age ten, with a neighbor’s gift of one of the Tarzan series. He left high school early and enrolled at Duke University at age seventeen. At Duke, he studied classics, English literature, and art. Anderson is a city located in Anderson County, South Carolina. ... Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increases in hilly areas at the base of a mountain range. ... This article is about the modern area called Appalachia. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Father with child Daddy and Fatherhood redirect here. ... The Railway Express Agency was a rail express service, at one point the only one in the United States. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The school, which officially became Duke University in 1924, traces its institutional roots to 1838. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

He was a Rhodes scholar at Merton College Oxford from 1948 to 1950, where his studies included Old English (taught by J.R.R. Tolkien) and where he wrote Oxford’s first thesis on James Joyce. In 1950, upon his return to the U.S., Davenport entered the U.S. Army , where he spent the next two years at Fort Bragg in the (756th Field Artillery, then the XVIII Airborne Corps). Leaving the army, he taught until 1955 at Washington University in St. Louis, then began his Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he studied with Harry Levin and Archibald MacLeish. Location map of Rhodes Rhodes, (Greek: Ρόδος (pron. ... Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Look up thesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Seamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Fort Bragg is a census-designated place and a major United States Army fort, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA, near Fayetteville. ... Patch of the XVIII Airborne Corps. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Washington University” redirects here. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Harry Levin (July 18, 1912 – 29 May 1994) was an American literary critic, and scholar of modernism and comparative literature. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. ...

He befriended Ezra Pound during the poet’s incarceration in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, visiting him annually from 1952 until his release in 1958, and at his home in Rapallo (Italy) in 1963 (a visit that became Davenport’s story, “Ithaka”). Davenport wrote his dissertation on Pound’s poetry (published as Cities on Hills in 1983). During his years in Cambridge, he was briefly married. Ezra Pound in 1913. ... St. ... This is about a Ligurian commune, see Rapallo for a resort on the Adriatic coast. ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status: City (1951) Region: East of England Admin. ...

After completing his Ph.D., he taught at Haverford College from 1961 to 1963 but soon took a position at the University of Kentucky, “the remotest offer with the most pay” (as he wrote to Jonathan Williams), where he taught until his retirement at the end of 1990. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... The name Jonathan Williams can refer to a number of people: Jonathan Williams, the engineer Jonathan Williams, the architect Jonathan Williams, the Formula 1 driver Jonathan Williams, the current keyboardist of the Pat McGee Band Jonathan Williams, the UK-based composer and conductor of music for video games Jonathan Williams... This article is about the year. ...

Davenport began publishing fiction in 1970 with “The Aeroplanes at Brescia”, which is based on Kafka’s visit to an air show in September 1909. His books include Tatlin!, Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Eclogues, Apples and Pears, The Jules Verne Steam Balloon, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers, A Table of Green Fields, The Cardiff Team, Twelve Stories, and The Death of Picasso (which also includes a selection of essays), and "Wo es war, soll ich werden". His fiction uses three general modes of exposition: The fictionalizing of historical events and figures; the foregrounding of formal narrative experiments, especially in the use of collage; and the depicting of a Fourierist utopia, where small groups of men, women, & children have eliminated the separation between mind and body. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... This article refers to the tool of travel. ... Franz Kafka approximately 1917 Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 in Prague - June 3, 1924 in Vienna) was one of the major German language writers of the 20th century most of whose work was published posthumously. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (Владимир Евграфович Татлин) (December 28 [O.S. December 16] 1885 – May 31, 1953) worked as a painter and architect. ... Leonardo redirects here. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Eclogues is one of three major works by the Latin poet Virgil. ... Jules Verne. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital of Wales and its largest city. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Fourier (SAMPA: [fVri:eI]) can mean: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician and physicist. ... Left panel (The Earthly Paradise, Garden of Eden), from Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights. ...

Before publishing fiction, Davenport was a regular reviewer for National Review and The Hudson Review. His essays ranged from literary to social topics, from small book reviews to lectures such as the title essay for his first collection, The Geography of the Imagination. Davenport was especially passionate about the destruction of the American metropolis by the automobile. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... Imagination is, in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. ...

His other collections of essays were Every Force Evolves a Form and The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature & Art. He also published two slim volumes on art: A Balthus Notebook and Objects on a Table. Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... The Gracchi were a noble plebeian family of ancient Rome. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. ...

Davenport wrote a handful of poems; the longest are “The Resurrection at Cookham Churchyard” (borrowing the title from a painting by Stanley Spencer) and the book-length Flowers & Leaves, an intricate meditation on art and America. His selected poems is Thasos and Ohio. Statistics Population: 6,668 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU895855 Administration District: Windsor and Maidenhead Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Berkshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Ambulance service: South Central Post office and telephone Post town: MAIDENHEAD... Stanley Spencer (1891 - 1959) was an English painter. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Turkish: Taşöz) is an island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos (during the Ottoman times Kara-Su). ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ...

Davenport also translated ancient Greek texts, particularly from the archaic period (published in small volumes, then collected into 7 Greeks), the occasional other piece (a few poems of Rilke's, some ancient Egyptian texts [with Boris de Rachewiltz) and, with Benjamin Urrutia, the sayings of Jesus, published as The Logia of Yeshua. For the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history. ... Adjective archaic (more archaic, most archaic) From an earlier period and no longer in common use; of or characterized by antiquity or archaism, antiquated. ... Rainer Maria Rilke (born 4 December 1875 in Prague; died 29 December 1926 in Val-Mont (Switzerland)) was an important poet in the German language. ... Prince Boris de Rachewiltz (Boris Baratti) is an Italian-Russian Egyptologist and writer on Africa and the ancient world. ... Benjamin Urrutia (1950-), international author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. ... Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ... Logia is a term applied to collections of sayings credited to Jesus and used as source materials by the Gospel writers in the writing of the familiar canonic narrative gospels. ... Yeshua (ישוע) or Jeshua is believed by many to be the Hebrew or Aramaic name for Jesus. ...

Before Davenport was a writer, he was a visual artist, and he drew or painted every day of his life. His notebooks are filled with drawings, cheek by jowl with his own observations and quotes from others. Many of his earlier stories are combinations of picture and text, especially Tatlin! and Apples and Pears (where some of the illustrations are of pages of his notebook). He also supplied illustrations for the books of others, particularly his friend, Hugh Kenner, in The Counterfeiters and The Stoic Comedians. Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003), Canadian literary scholar, critic, & professor. ...

Davenport was remarkable for the range of his literary and artistic friendships. In addition to Pound, Williams, and Kenner, Davenport knew Louis Zukofsky, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Middleton, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Buckminster Fuller, Eudora Welty, Samuel Delany, Robert Kelly, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Stan Brakhage, and Ronald Johnson. Ezra Pound in 1913. ... The name Jonathan Williams can refer to a number of people: Jonathan Williams, the engineer Jonathan Williams, the architect Jonathan Williams, the Formula 1 driver Jonathan Williams, the current keyboardist of the Pat McGee Band Jonathan Williams, the UK-based composer and conductor of music for video games Jonathan Williams... The cover of the 1978 edition of Zukofskys long poem A. Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 - May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. ... Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. ... Christopher Middleton (born June 10, 1926) is a British poet, translator (especially of German literature), and academic. ... Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. ... Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, essayist, poet, professor, cultural critic, and farmer. ... Richard Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller (July 12[1], 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Samuel Ray Chip Delany, Jr. ... Robert Kelly (born 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. ... James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 - November 12, 1997) was an American poet, publisher, and man of letters. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. ... Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker. ...

Two sentences he wrote about his friend and neighbour, Meatyard, apply as well to himself: “He was rare among American artists in that he was not obsessed with his own image in the world. He could therefore live in perfect privacy in a rotting Kentucky town.” Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ...

Davenport bought Oscar Mayer bologna, fried it, and ate it with Campbell's soup. He died of lung cancer on January 4 2005. Oscar Mayer Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, now owned by Kraft Foods, that is famous for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Campbell Soup Company ( NYSE: CPB) (also known as Campbells) is undeniably the most well-known producer of canned soups and related products in the United States (and possibly the world). ... Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. ...

Fiction

• Tatlin!: Six Stories (Scribner's, 1974) (illustrated by Davenport)
• Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories (University of Chicago Press, 1979) (illustrated by Davenport)
• Eclogues: Eight Stories (North Point Press, 1981) (illustrated by Roy Behrens)
• Trois Caprices (The Pace Trust, 1981) (three stories later collected in The Jules Verne Steam Balloon)
• The Bowmen of Shu (The Grenfell Press, 1984) (limited ed.) (collected in Apples & Pears)
• Apples & Pears and Other Stories (North Point Press, 1984) (illustrated by Davenport)
• The Bicycle Rider (Red Ozier Press, 1985) (limited ed.) (later collected—in a different version—in The Jules Verne Steam Balloon)
• Jonah: A Story (Nadja Press, 1986) (limited ed.) (later collected in The Jules Verne Steam Balloon)
• The Jules Verne Steam Balloon: Nine Stories (North Point Press, 1987)
• Belinda's World Tour (Dim Gray Bar Press, 1991) (illustrated by Deborah Norden) (limited ed.) (collected in A Table of Green Fields)
• August Blue (Larkspur Press, 1992) (limited ed.) (collected in A Table of Green Fields)
• The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (North Point Press, 1990)
• The Lark( Dim Gray Bar Press, 1993) (illustrated by Davenport) (limited ed.)
• A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories (New Directions, 1993)
• The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories (New Directions, 1996)
• Twelve Stories (Counterpoint, 1997) (selections from Tatlin!, Apples and Pears, and The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers)
• The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing (2003, Shoemaker & Hoard) (contains seven essays [three uncollected] along w/ nineteen stories [two uncollected] & one play)
• Wo es war, soll ich werden: The Restored Original Text (2004, The Finial Press) (limited ed.)

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Translations

• Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochus (University of California Press, 1964)
• Sappho: Songs & Fragments (University of Michigan Press, 1965)
• Herakleitos and Diogenes (Grey Fox Press, 1979)
• The Mimes of Herondas (Grey Fox Press, 1981)
• Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians (The Pace Trust, 1983) (from Boris de Rachewiltz's Massime degli antichi egiziani, 1954)
• Anakreon (The University of Alabama/ Parallel Editions, 1991)
• Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets (University of California Press, 1980) (adds Alkman to Carmina Archilochi & Sappho: Poems & Fragments)
• The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus (Counterpoint, 1996) (w/ Benjamin Urrutia)
• 7 Greeks (New Directions, 1995) (revises and collects the texts — but (regrettably) none of the delightful Davenport drawings — in Carmina Archilochi, Sappho: Songs & Fragments, Herakleitos and Diogenes, The Mimes of Herondas, Anakreon, and Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman)

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Poetry

• The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard (Jordan Davies, 1982)
• Goldfinch Thistle Star (Red Ozier Press, 1983) (illustrated by Lachlan Stewart)
• Flowers & Leaves: Poema vel Sonata, Carmina Autumni Primaeque Veris Transformationem (Nantahala Foundation/Jonathan Williams, 1966; Bamberger Books, 1991) (illustrated by Davenport)
• Thasos & Ohio: Poems & Translations, 1950-1980 (North Point Press, 1986) (includes most of Flowers & Leaves, along w/ translations of six of the 7 Greeks, and of Rainer Maria Rilke & Harold Schimmel)

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Fugitive Pieces

Davenport wrote introductions or contributions to many books: Jack Sharpless's Presences of Mind; Will McBride's Coming of Age; Paul Cadmus's Drawings; Charles Burchfield's Charles Burchfield's Seasons; Simon Dinnerstein's Paintings and Drawings; Anne Carson's Glass, Irony, and God; Jonathan Williams's Palpable Elysium, Ear in Bartram's Tree, Elite/Elate Poems and tribute to Edward Dahlberg; Lenard D. Moore's Forever Home; the first volume of Paul Metcalf's Collected Works; Jonathan Greene's tribute to Jonathan Williams, JW/50; Daniel Haberman's Lug of Days to Come; Burton Raffel's Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments; James Laughlin's Man in the Wall; Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Don Quixote; Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Father Louie and Ralph Eugene Meatyard; Aperture's monographs on Eudora Welty's and Ralph Eugene Meatyard's photographs; University of Virginia's small monograph on Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Turner Hutton's Americans in Paris (1921-31): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, & Alexander Calder; Riva Castleman's Art of the Forties; Ronald Johnson's Ark: The Foundations and Valley of Many-Colored Grasses; O. Henry's Cabbages & Kings and Selected Stories (which he also edited); and his selection of Louis Agassiz's scientific writings (The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz) (which he also edited). Some of these pieces were included in Davenport's collections of essays. Will McBride (born 1931, St. ... Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. ... Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967) was one of the preeminent American painters of the 20th century. ... Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at McGill University and at the University of Michigan. ... The name Jonathan Williams can refer to a number of people: Jonathan Williams, the engineer Jonathan Williams, the architect Jonathan Williams, the Formula 1 driver Jonathan Williams, the current keyboardist of the Pat McGee Band Jonathan Williams, the UK-based composer and conductor of music for video games Jonathan Williams... // For the band, see Elysium (band). ... Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) was an American novelist and essayist. ... 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Introductions (another version)

Davenport wrote protective introductions to the work of many gay artists, especially Will McBride (Coming of Age) and Paul Cadmus (The Drawings of Paul Cadmus). Will McBride (born 1931, St. ... Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. ... Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. ...

Commentary

• The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz (Beacon Press, 1963)
• Key-Indexed Study Guide to Homer's The Iliad (Educational Research Associates, 1967)
• Key-Indexed Study Guide to Homer's The Odyssey (Educational Research Associates, 1967)
• The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays. (North Point Press, 1981)
• Cities on Hills: Ezra Pound's Cantos (UMI Research, 1983)
• Charles Burchfield's Seasons (Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994)
• The Drawings of Paul Cadmus (Rizzoli, 1989)
• Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays (North Point Press, 1987)
• A Balthus Notebook. (The Ecco Press, 1989)
• The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art. (Counterpoint, 1996)
• Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (Counterpoint, 1998)

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Paintings & Drawings

• A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport, with an essay by Erik Anderson Reece (New Directions, 1996)
• 50 Drawings (Dim Gray Bar Press 1996 ltd ed)
• Joan Crane's Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995 (1996) contains 25 pages of his drawings.
• Some of Davenport's finest quill & ink crosshatch work appears in his friend Hugh Kenner's books, The Counterfeiters and The Stoic Comedians.

The Quinceañera is a young Latina womans celebration of her fifteenth birthday, which is celebrated in a specific and different way from her other birthdays. ... Dim Gray Bar Press was an independent publisher of letterpress limited edition books printed at The Center for Book Arts in New York City. ... Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003), Canadian literary scholar, critic, & professor. ...

Criticism, Reviews, & Interviews

• Bawer, Bruce. "Wise guy", Artforum, April 2005.
• Cahill, Christopher. "Prose" (The Cardiff Team and The Hunter Gracchus). Boston Review, April/May 1997.
• Furlani, Andre. "A Postmodern Utopia Of Childhood Sexuality: The Fiction Of Guy Davenport", in: Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
• ***. Guy Davenport: Postmodernism and After. Northwestern University Press, 2007
• Mason, Wyatt "There must I begin to be: Guy Davenport's heretical fictions". Harper's Magazine, April 2004.
• Sullivan, John Jeremiah. "The Art of Fiction CLXXIV: Interview with Guy Davenport." The Paris Review. No. 163, Fall 2002. 42-87

External links

• New Criterion obituary, Feb 2005.
• "Het Nieuve Wereldbeeld: The Magical World of Guy Davenport"
• "When Novelists Become Cubists: The Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport". (Style, Spring 2002)
• "Guy Davenport as Translator". (National Post, 19th August 2004.)
• "Memories of Davenport as a teacher"
• A review of Davenport and Benjamin Urrutia's translations of the sayings of Jesus
• Roy R. Behrens: A Designer Remembers the Writer Guy Davenport
• "Let the Song Lie in the Thing" n+1's obituary
• Guy Davenport web site
• Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (2006), a 500-page scholarly volume that considers Davenport in its conclusion (the author has made this volume available in a free, open-access, PDF version).

Published Bibliography

• Crane, Joan.Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995. Green Shade, 1996.