num_pages: 528
description: Best known for her short stories and translations Davis's also writes nonfiction. In Essays I Davis has for the first time gathered a selection of essays commentaries and lectures composed over the past five decades.In this first of two volumes her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs.
language: English
title: Essays One
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux