lauren_endnotes's review
4.0
The most enjoyable Davenport [for me] is the critical cat railing on e.e. cummings in "Transcendental Satyr", or Noah Webster in "More Genteel than God". I also enjoyed the opening essay on Levi-Strauss, "The Champollion of Table Manners". The titular essay was brilliant, studying birds as daimons and harbingers in Poe, Whitman, Auden. "Imaginary Americas" also had some great insights.
I read that Davenport's short stories are nothing short of immaculate, so that's likely the next stop with this author.
I read that Davenport's short stories are nothing short of immaculate, so that's likely the next stop with this author.
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