Tag: Guy-Davenport

Davenport Desired

Guy Davenport Books and Pamphlets (All)

1963 The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz

1964 Carmina Archilochi The Fragments of Archilochos

1965 Sappho Poems and Fragments

1966 Cydonia Florentia

1980 Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age

1981 The Mimes of Herondas

1983 Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians

1994 Charles Burchfield's Seasons

1995 7 Greeks

1996 The Logia of Yeshua The Sayings of Jesus (with Benjamin Urrutia)

Top 3 Things I learned from the late Guy Davenport

1. Cynic comes from the greek for canine, "baring ones teeth", Diogenes being the UrCynic
2. Walt Whitman's last word was shift
3. At Charles Olson's funeral, Allen Ginsberg stepped on the lever to inter the coffin while in a strange trance