CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Everywhere Being Is Dancing, Knowing Is Known -- Singing with the Frogs: The Theory and Practice of Literary Polyphony -- The Meaning of Mythology -- What Is Found in Translation -- The Philosophy of Poetry and the Trashing of Doctor Empedokles -- To Tell the Truth by Lying: Gorgias the Sicilian and a Theory You Can't Refuse -- The Fragments of Parmenides: The Poetry of Philosophy and the Fate of the University -- Raven's Wine Cup -- Boats Is Saintlier Than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design -- Licking the Lips with a Forked Tongue -- The Typographic Mind -- Into the Absolute of Nature: The Face of Joan Miró -- The Story and the Orphan:The Narrative Art of Elizabeth Nyman -- A Piece of Bread, a Loaf of Vision:The Art of Alice Kane -- A Poet and a War -- The Critic in the Rain -- The Origin of Mind -- Being Where We Are: The Art of Overhearing Charlie Mitchell's Prayer -- It Used to Be I Sang Them: Big Charlie and the Origin of Horses -- Jumping from the Train: How and Why to Read a Work of Haida Oral Literature -- Index -- Acknowledgements.