It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the hou….

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well..

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading..

Stories are the reproductive organs of language..

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop..

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight o….

Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look s….

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry..

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast….

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentence….

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and ther….

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy -….

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form..

Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, eq….

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choi….

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetr….

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the w….

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything..

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about..

Typography exists to honor content..

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested….