Guy Davenport's story collection A Table of Green Fields (New Directions, 1993) was praised for its amazing artistry and "stratospheric" literary intelligence ( Kirkus Reviews ). As The Washington Post noted, "It draws one in with its austere, beautifully formal sentences, its rich pattern of memory." In Davenport's follow-up collection, The Cardiff Team , the stories continue in this vein, their texts a wondrous collage of persons, events, and ideas...