On Carol Shields Collected Stories, Part I

Carol Shields Collected Stories is composed of Shields' last work, 'Segue' and her three short story anthologies: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival. The following quotes are from 'Segue' and Various Miracles. Carol Shields, Collected Stories Part I - But if you picture the sonnet, instead, as a little sound, a ping in the great wide silent world, you make visible a sudden fluidity to the form, a splash of noise, but a carefully measured splash that's saved from preciosity by the fact that it comes from within the body's own borders... - - I...