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 Sixteenth-Century 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 Garcia-Pabon English and European Contexts "A Super-Political 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.