Book Excerpts

Editor’s Introduction, by Elizabeth Gordon McKim

Margo Fuchs-Knill’s voice is particular: a Swiss writer immersed in the stew of American English. She knows what it means to be abandoned at school age by the mother-tongue she moves in, to be hungry for something she has not yet tasted but remembers from some other displacement. She possesses the serious playfulness of a poet, seeing and fielding words within worlds, uncovering odd nests of order in the inescapable present mess, and leaping deftly back and forth, into and out of the realms of the body’s imagination.