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Brian Blanchfield

About

Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies: Essays Near Knowing. The recipient of a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 James Laughlin Award, he currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a visiting faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Articles

Issue 96, Spring 2017

Coming Up with Guy Davenport

It’s easy to send up such an original; harder to imagine how to come up with one so disinhibited now, so insistently innocent of popular mores.

By Brian Blanchfield