Table of Contents

My Philosophy of Life John Ashbery 1

The Guardian Angel Stephen Dunn 3

The Poem, its Buried Subject, and the Revisionist Reader: Behind "The Guardian Angel" Stephen Dunn 5

Minds and Poems Keith Gunderson 11

Poetry and Abstract Thought Peter Lamarque 37

Poetry and Truth John Koethe 53

Toward a Philosophy of Poetry Anna Christina Ribeiro 61

Is Concrete Poetry Literature? Louise Hanson 78

Two Varieties of Literary Imagination: Metaphor, Fiction, and Thought Experiments Elisabeth Camp 107

"Like a Picture or a Bump on the Head": Vision, Cognition, and the Language of Poetry Troy Jollimore 131

Rhythm and Meaning in Poetry Patrick Suppes 159

About About: On Poetry and Paraphrase Angela Leighton 167

The Heresy of Paraphrase: When the Medium Really Is the Message Ernie Lepore 177

Aristotle, Shakespeare, and the Problem of Character Emily Grosholz 198

The Maimonidean Parable, the Arabic Poetics, and the Garden of Eden Josef Stern 209

About the Author

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Miami and he did post-doctoral work at Oxford University. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) honorary degree from Gettysburg College in 2006. French is the author of nineteen books including The Virtues of Vengeance; Cowboy Metaphysics; Ethics and College Sports; Responsibility Matters; Corporate Ethics; and Collective and Corporate Responsibility. He has published dozens of articles in the philosophical and legal journals. Works by him have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Serbian, and Spanish. 

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York and a B.A. from Yeshiva College. He has authored two books, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language and Has Semantics Rested On a Mistake? and Other Essays, and edited others including Themes From Kaplan (co-edited) and Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. He is currently writing a new book in the philosophy of religion; his work in that area includes such topics as doctrine and the viability of philosophical theology; the Book of Job and the problem of evil; the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac); the character of religious experience and religious life; and the roles of awe, ritual, and intimacy.