This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit logic of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. The poetic gesture bears a silent, inarticulate linguistic being of its own form that arises within and alongside the poem as an unreadable gesture, and that bridges with...