Fine Incisions

Fine Incisionsis 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.

Preface	p. 9

Shadow Language: Foreign Accents in English Poetry	p. 13
Passionate Syntax	p. 25
The King of Never-to-Be	p. 41
Butterfly on a Wheel	p. 51
Gilded Totems	p. 59
Mosquitoes in Eden	p. 75
Ultimate Distillations	p. 85
Ancient Chills	p. 91
An Austere Opulence	p. 101

Fine Incisions: Reflections on Reviewing	p. 109

Delousing the Soul	p. 125
The House in His Mind	p. 133
Secret Lightning-Flashes	p. 139
The View from a Falling House	p. 147
The Disaster Parade	p. 153

Waiting for the Grammarians	p. 161
Ambitious Diminutives	p. 169

Prague of a Hundred Towers	p. 187
Two Letters from Prague	p. 195

Fabulous Cities	p. 213
In Search of al-Majâtî	p. 219
The Happiest Man in Morocco	p. 231

The Born Schoolmaster	p. 243
Acknowledgements	p. 25
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