"Creative writing programs are an invention of American universities. In the Francophone world we believe that the pow…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"The Corn Belt is a gift of the gods—the rain god, the sun god, the ice god and the gods of geology. In the middle of …"

"...To bring us back to Small Axe, one of the things that we have had to worry about over the course of our existence …"

"I do think of my work, certainly in Refashioning Futures and Conscripts of Modernity, as work that has grown out of t…"

"One of the things that Small Axe has been trying to do over the years is to be self-conscious about criticism as a qu…"

"Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Na…"