"The Encyclopedia of Scotland . . . will force many readers to rethink whatever they may have thought they knew about Finch & her project heretofore."  — Ron Silliman on "Silliman's Blog" 

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"In the face of technological and consumer culture, Finch's fanciful libretto opts for evanescence over irony, sensual pleasure over theoretical critique.  Hidden codes and secret pleasures, nursery rhymes and popular songs, primordial ooze and joyous sound-patterning animate these pages.  Friskily sporting with lofty tones and poetic apparatus, The Encyclopedia of Scotland (written in 1980) anticipates works such as LIsa Robertson's Debbie: An Epic and Stacy Doris' Paramour.  Here is high artifice and sonic astonishment, here is a unique mind at literary play.

—Jennifer Moxley

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