Sunday, July 06, 2008

`Learning from Lexington'

Thanks to Brian Sholis for alerting me to a brief reminiscence of Guy Davenport, “Learning from Lexington,” by Marjorie Perloff in the July/August issue of Poetry. Here’s how she concludes:

“Writing, for Davenport, was its own best pleasure. And, in any case, he quipped, writing poetry is much easier than reading it.”

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