Analytical, controversial, lyrical, intelligent, and never boring, these essays cover topics as diverse as Nabokov's Pale Fire , the literary quarrel between Morley Callaghan and John Glassco, the idea of art, the poetry and prose of R.J. MacSween, the poetry of Ken Norris, and myth.

Louis Dudek has been a poet, critic, teacher, modernist theoretician, editor, and publisher.