Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Editors’ Note and Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Robert Bringhurst: An Artistic and Intellectual Biography 19
7. Renaissance Men and Presocratic Philosophers: The Path to The Fragments of Parmenides 46
8. Ecologies of Estrangement: Robert Bringhurst’s Antigone 52
9. Salvage Selvage Joinery: Bringhurst’s Early Drafts 62
10. Grace in Two-and-a-Half Dimensions: Robert Bringhurst, Typographer 87
11. Anatomy of a Voice: Robert Bringhurst’s Rhythms 101
12. “Conversations with a Toad”: A Prologue to Polyphony 137
13. Braided Skeins of Sound: Bringhurst’s Oral Polyphony 147
14. Water Music: Close Listening to The Blue Roofs of Japan 155
15. Bringhurst in West Coast Book Design and Publishing 175
16. Story and Silence 183
17. Uncovered: An American Iliad 188
18. At Land’s End: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers 194
19. Sgalangáay Díinaa lijang: “This Is My Song” 224
20. The Reincarnation of Stories 227
21. Ursa Major: Polyphony, Myth, Ecology 231
22. Contributors 259
23. Index 263