Fine Incisions Fiction Smith Award for Poetry (1977)

Smith Award for Poetry (1977)

and contributed greatly to the Canadian writing community

Fred Cogswell

and their 16-year-old Russian maid

Fine Incisions Fiction Smith Award for Poetry (1977)Fine 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