Part of our revived Poetry Pamphlet series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing found material.
Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this 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 snow-drift.
-- Eliot Weinberge.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Two american scenes, paperback/lydia davis
