Still Shall Hear a Calling Bell is an invocation and a promise-that the power of language and the aesthetics of art are at their best, their most pleasurable, when they move untrammeled along the corridors of the human soul. To read this, is to pause before a deeply mystifying experience, to seek reprieve from the noise and admonitions of the world, to rejoice in the power of literature as it is meant to exist: fiercely independent and urgently moving.