Eric Ormsby on his book of essays Fine Incisions, Book Reviewing and Tolstoy

Eric Ormsby is a poet, a writer, and a man of letters. He was a longtime resident of Montreal, where he was the Director of University Libraries and subsequently a professor of Islamic thought at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies. Presently, he lives and writes in France and Prague.

Ormsby began writing poetry as a young man and began publis…