CONTENTS
Introduction
Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook
Poiesis on the Threshold of Modernity
Poiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luis Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602)
Leah Middlebrook
"Orphic Fictions": Poesia and Poiesis in Cervantes
Anthony J. Cascardi
Spiders and Flies: Imagining "The World" in Early Modern European Natural Philosophy
Christopher Braider
Encyclopedism, Poiesis, and Modernity
Marina S. Brownlee
From the Bibliotheca to the Garden and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in Late SixteenthCentury Miscellanea
David R. Castillo
Case Studies: Poesia and Poiesis
Writing Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Conventions of Orthodoxy
Seth Kimmel
Scrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: The Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino)
Elizabeth R. Wright
Ribera's Sagradas poesias as Poiesis of Modernity in Colonial Potosi
Leonardo GarciaPabon
English and European Contexts
"A SuperPolitical Concernment": Evolution and Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdes to John Locke
Julian Jimenez Heffernan
Failed New World Epics in Baroque Italy
Nathalie Hester
How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian's Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791)
Fabienne Moore
The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Gongora's Poetics
William Egginton
Sense and Equivalence in Gongora and the Spanish Mystics: A Credit Crisis
Julio Baena
Afterword
Bradley J. Nelson

This broadranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair.

Anthony J. Cascardi is Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dean of Arts and Humanities. He is the author of Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age, The Subject of Modernity, and Consequences of Enlightenment.
Leah Middlebrook is associate professor of comparative literature and Romance languages at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain.