Fine Incisions Fiction and contributed greatly to the

and contributed greatly to the Canadian writing community

Fred Cogswell

Thomas Assembly Plant for twenty-one years

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

Fine Incisions Fiction and contributed greatly to theFine 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