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Editors’ Note and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Robert Bringhurst: An Artistic and Intellectual Biography
2 Renaissance Men and Presocratic Philosophers: The Path to The Fragments of Parmenides
3 Ecologies of Estrangement: Bringhurst’s Antigone
4 Salvage Selvage Joinery: Bringhurst’s Early Drafts
5 Grace in Two-and-a-Half Dimensions: Robert Bringhurst, Typographer
6 Anatomy of a Voice: Bringhurst’s Rhythms
7 “Conversations with a Toad”: A Prologue to Polyphony
8 Braided Skeins of Sound: Bringhurst’s Oral Polyphony
9 Water Music: Close Listening to The Blue Roofs of Japan
10 Bringhurst in West Coast Book Design and Publishing
11 Story and Silence
12 Uncovered: An American Iliad
13 At Land’s End: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
14 Sgalangáay Díinaa lijang: “This Is My Song”
15 The Reincarnation of Stories
16 Ursa Major: Polyphony, Myth, Ecology
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