In these quirkily imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our “Bartleby”) goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne
Frances escapes her small-town background to attend first-year university in the big city. "You've got to find the great love," her new friend Dagmar tells her, but what makes it love instead of sex?
Poetry. What if words evolved in species and genera just like birds and dinosaurs? What if you classified them in kingdoms and families? Made a phylogenetic tree with orders of Space, Matter, or Intel
