The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing

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 perfectly described by the term "singular" and in praising his work, from fiction to poetry, from translations to essays, critics all over the world have noted his unique manner, his remarcable erudition and his starting humor. He is the finely realized perfection of high modernism blended with an American sensibility as old as Emerson´s. For The Death of Picasso, Davenport has gathered twenty-seven essays and stories from throughout his career, and exciting and invigorating selection, frome one of the finest prose masters at work today.