American Literature: The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (Paperback)

from gendeg

"The high ground of traditional realism, brothers, is where I stand! Give me familiar, substantial stuff: rocs and rhinoceri, ifrits and genies and flying carpets, such as we all drank in our mother's milk and shall drink-Inshallah!-till our final swallow. Let no outlander imagine that such craze...

from gendeg

"The high ground of traditional realism, brothers, is where I stand! Give me familiar, substantial stuff: rocs and rhinoceri, ifrits and genies and flying carpets, such as we all drank in our mother's milk and shall drink-Inshallah!-till our final swallow. Let no outlander imagine that such craze...

from joeydag

I read this sometime in the 90's I think. I had seen him do a reading from it at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. He is exactly what you imagine from his writing - a literary professor with a slightly raffish aspect.