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Synopsis
With photos and text, Jonathan Williams (poet, publisher, and raconteur) pays tribute to heroes of the spirit from Paul Strand and Buckminster Fuller to Wendell Berry and James Laughlin.
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About the Authors
Jonathan Williams made his home in Highlands, North Carolina, where he acted as the publisher of The Jargon Society.
Guy Davenport was a writer of fiction, illustrator, teacher, scholar, translator, poet, and critic. Mr. Davenport published over 40 books, among them collections of short stories, translations from the Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art.
Reviews
Poet and premier small-press (the Jargon Society) publisher Williams collects artists. That is, he goes to meet poets, sculptors, painters, composers, photographers, and musicians--living and dead--in situ. A longtime contributing editor of the photography journal Aperture, he takes a mean snap himself, and he says he likes to get a portrait in a single shot, strictly on the fly. Lots of his subjects are fellow upper-southerners, from poet-farmer Wendell Berry to folk-potter Georgia Blizzard of Glade Spring, Virginia. He spends part of each year in Dentdale, Surrey, and so here, too, are such English images as a vault in the Watts Mortuary Chapel, Compton, Surrey, as decorated almost beyond belief by Mary Frazer-Tytler Watts. Charlie Parker's, E. E. Cummings', and James Thurber's grave markers prove remarkably unprepossessing, while the monumental sculpture gardens of outsider artists like St. EOM are remarkably overwhelming. Each picture is a treat, and Williams' highly personal, peculiar, prickly, and patrician notes make this one of the funniest books of the age. Vintage Williams. Ray Olson
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