Evolves a Form , both of which were nominated for National Book Awards. He seems to have read everything twice. But the culture that catches his eye is not theirs. Like Poirier, and even like Brodkey, he takes texts as his beginning. Inevitably he says what he wants through discussions of nets of words leading back.
Mind is evident in the patterns it makes.
To discern these patterns is to be a philosopher. His apercus are bundled accordingly. Taking one of Kafka's best-known short stories he weaves facts about the Roman family Gracchus into biographical details about Kafka. These sections allow Davenport to mass information for his readers to get inside Kafka's strange story one more time, this time with a sense of where Kafka's muse carried him. This also is Davenport's method.