Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Introduction -- Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry -- The Corpus around the “Verses upon the Elixir”: Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities -- Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse -- The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority -- Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry -- Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge -- Concluding Thoughts -- Preface to the Editions -- Poems -- Prose Texts -- Bibliography -- Index…”

“…Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Soothing Blindness, Piercing Insight: Ruth Benedict's Verse -- Concealing Disclosures -- Yearning for Lost Plenitude -- Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples -- 2 Margaret Mead: How to Make It New, Differently -- Reinventing the Social World -- Toward an Anthropology of the Senses -- The Public and the Private, In and Out of Verse -- 3 Exerting Poetic License: Edward Sapir's Poetry -- Little Canadian Flowers -- Poetry Magazine -- Playing Seriously With Genres -- Of Desert Sirens -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index…”