Neatness CountsIn Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the deskrolltop or bureau plat, cluttered or bare, the nestlike desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any such furniture. Exploring the topography of literary creation by way of the topography of work space, Kopelson, one of todays most important critics, offers a series of meditations on how orderliness, chaos, and other physical states correspond with both the