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About the Book

"Fine Incisions" is a collection of twenty-four gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious essays, wide-ranging in their interests and rigorous in their analyses. Ormsby's reverence for language is luminously clear as he examines his international travels, the work of James Merrill, the state of North American literary criticism and more in a series of essays as vivacious as they are provocative.

Table of Contents:
PrefaceShadow Language: Foreign Accents in English Poetry Passionate Syntax (William Butler Yeats) The King of Never-To-Be (Walter De la Mare) Butterfly on a Wheel (Bob Dylan) Gilded Totems (James Merrill) Mosquitoes in Eden (Richard Outram) Ultimate Distillations (Daryl Hine) Ancient Chills (Elizabeth Bishop) An Austere Opulence (Geoffrey Hill) Fine Incisions: Reflections on Reviewing Delousing the Soul (J.-K. Huysmans) The House in his Mind (William Maxwell) Secret Lightning-Flashes (Leo Tolstoy) The View from a Falling House (Katherine Anne Porter) The Disaster Parade (Richard Yates) Waiting for the Grammarians (C. P. Cavafy) Ambitious Diminutives (La Fontaine) Prague of a Hundred Towers Two Letters from Prague: Nostalgia for Bad Times (1999) Waiting for the Golden Pig (2004) Fabulous Cities In Search of al-Majati The Happiest Man in Morocco The Born Schoolmaster (S. D. Goitein)

About the Author :
Eric Ormsby's poetry has appeared in most of the major journals in Canada, England and the U.S., including The New Yorker, Parnassus and The Oxford American. His first collection of poems, Bavarian Shrine and other poems (ECW Press, 1990), won the QSpell Award of 1991. In the following year he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for 'outstanding work as a poet'. His collection, Coastlines (ECW Press, 1992), was a finalist for the QSpell Award of that year. A sixth collection, Time's Covenant, appeared in 2006 with Biblioasis. His work has been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Poetry as well as in The Norton Introduction to Literature.Eric and his wife Irena currently live in London, England.

Review :
'... Ormsby is one of the two or three best English-language poets we [Canada] can fairly lay claim to. A fact that should be recognized someday.' -- Alex Good & Steven W. Beattie The Afterword 'A review like this one can only brush the surface of a collection so rich. And it's simply impossible to praise it sufficiently. Its rare erudition and worldliness provide perfect ballast for the chiseled sentences of the essays, which flicker and snap with the energy of live wires. Ormsby borrows his title from a poem by Emily Dickinson, and does her honor in these essays that have the penetration of literal incisions, openings that cut deep into mystery, opening it to reveal all its shining interior.' -- Roger Sauls Rover Arts Culture is not something so easily broken down. Fine Incisions is a study of literature and culture from Eric Ormsby, as he discusses North American Literary criticism and hopes to challenge it to rise to the challenge, as he mixes in memoir with his own studies of culture, language, literature, and so much more. A poet by trade, Ormsby's writing is sure to draw readers in, and his stories and discussions will resonate with any, critic and non-critic alike. Fine Incisions is a strong addition to any literary criticism collection, enthusiastically recommended. -- Mary Cowper Midwest Book Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889843349
  • Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
  • Height: 222 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on Poetry and Place
  • Width: 141 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0889843341
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 458 gr


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