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Rare Bird
on Guy Davenport
on Guy Davenport
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Guy Davenport is faithful to Ezra Pound's injunction that prose ought to be at least as well crafted as verse. He is a master of subtle pace. Seemingly short sentences and fragmentary phrases open, via unexpected commas, into sequences as opulent as Japanese paper blossoms dropped in clear water. [...]
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Guy Davenport is faithful to Ezra Pound's injunction that prose ought to be at least as well crafted as verse. He is a master of subtle pace. Seemingly short sentences and fragmentary phrases open, via unexpected commas, into sequences as opulent as Japanese paper blossoms dropped in clear water. [...]
just a really pretty passage
cormorant
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(noun) a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person OR a type of bird
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Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"
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Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"
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