Two American Scenes

Lydia Davis

Two American Scenes

Poetry by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger

Two remarkable prose stylists — friends since high school — transform found material from the nineteenth century into mesmerizing poem-essays.

It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on his earth. Along with a few of the sorrows that are appointed unto men, I have had innumerable enjoyments; and the world has been to me, even from childhood, a great museum. — Lydia Davis



Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side; his foot catches under the seat and he is dragged, head under water. Camped on a sand beach, the wind blows a hurricane. Sand piles over us like a snowdrift. — Eliot Weinberger

Paperback(published Mar, 26 2013)

ISBN
9780811220415
Price US
10.95
Price CN
11.99
Page Count
48
Portrait of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

American translator, novelist, poet, and essayist

Portrait of Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger

American essayist and translator