Fine Incisions Fiction Fred Cogswell

Fred Cogswell

returning to the school after graduation to complete a master’s degree on the poetry of A M Klein

he rents a cottage north of Kingston from Norma

Smith Award for Poetry (1977)

where he encountered many luminaries of the 1920s expatriate community

Fine Incisions Fiction Fred CogswellFine Incisions is a collection of twenty four gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious essays, wide ranging in their interests and rigorous in their analyses. Ormsbys 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. A poem, I thought, is a physical object, as tactile