In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally ab….

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of….

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates poss….

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born..

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly..

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre..

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutto….

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must re….

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing t….

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….

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but percepti….

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

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a wom….

Stories are the reproductive organs of language..

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..

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech….

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is so….