And Nobody Objected Author:Paul Metcalf Fiction. Christopher Columbus, when reporting on his first voyage to the New World, noted "I found very many islands filled with people without number, and of them I have taken possession for their Highnesses, by proclamation and with royal standard displayed, and nobody objected." In responding to Metcalf's earlier book, Apalache, Guy Davenport... more » noted, "Paul Metcalf's sense of new-world history is both a revelation and a vision. Like a medieval chronicler with the eye of a poet and the heart of a tale-teller he fits together radiant fragments into a wholly new kind of construct. He writes with texts the way Ives wrote with scores."« less