week 13: Steve Daveport

Uncontainable Noise is a book of poetry that seems to span three relationships. Daveport's wording is powerful and moving; he uses strong words that are full of images and emotions. The reader feels as though they are living the poems themselves as they happen. Indeed the poetry seems less a narrative of these relationships so much as the actual and tangible relatioship, right there on the page infront of the reader.

Davenport's writting style is very alive. Not only does he use powerful words and strong imagery, but he also plays with the notion of literature itself. He makes up his own words to create a sound behind the poems. At times the reader feels as though he is actually standing there in the room with the lovers as they meet, quarrel, make love and part again.

Davenport's short story is quite the same thing as his poetry. In fact this story seems to be poetry as well. He uses a semi-stream-of-concious style to suck the reader in. Davenport also uses a third person point of view to make the reader feel as though they are the ones that lived this story, instead of Daveport. He has an omnipotent knowledge of the events so that, even as the reader believes that they are the ones being narrated about, makes it impossible to discount the narrator as uninvolved in the story.

The writing style of the novel throws the reader into the middle of the plot and then makes him swim out with very little assistance. In this way, the reader feels a constant sense of confusion that mirrors real life. At times the confusion lessens and then Davenport throws the reader back in again; just as though the reader was the one to actually live this story.

Through both his narratives and poetry one can see that Daveport is a skilled writer that enjoys playing with the common (mis)conceptions of literature. Equivalent to many writers of this time and age, literature has become a way of expressing oneself instead of simply entertaining or enlightening the reader. One can expect many more interesting developments on the "modern" idea of literature.