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The Death of Picasso: New Selected Writing
The Death of Picasso New Selected Writing Author:Guy Davenport When Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes, sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term "singular," and in praising his work, from fiction to poetry, from translations to essays, critics all over the wo... more »rld have noted his unique manner, his remarkable erudition, and his startling humor. He is the finely realized perfection of high modernism blended with an American sensibility as old as Emersons. For The Death of Picasso, Davenport has gathered twenty-seven essays and stories from throughout his career, more than one-third of which have never before appeared in book form. The whole stands as the authors choice of the pieces he would have us read today if we are curious about what hes been up to all this time. The result is an exciting and invigorating selection, a testament to one of the prose masters at work today.« less