ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Encounter: “Job.” The Nation: “Tao-chi.” The New Yorker: “Jerome,” “Spinoza.” Tikkun: “Cinderella,” “Achilles and the Tortoise,” “Cherry Plums,” “Hitler in Sheol,” “In the Garden,” “Faust,” “Through the Eye of the Needle,” “Left Hand,” “Brief Theodicy,” “Jonah,” “Kingdom of Heaven.” Wigwag: “Brooms.” Zyzzyva: “The Frog Prince,” “Huang-po,” “At the Top of the Christmas Tree,” “Cassandra,” “Sinai.” “Dr. Johnson,” “Jerome,” “Huangpo,” “Kafka,” “The Baal Shem Tov,” “Tao-chi,” Spinoza,” “Meister Eckhart,” “Francis,” “Picasso,” “Montaigne,” and “Vermeer” have been published as Twelve Portraits, in an edition of ninety-five copies, by Wesley B. Tanner at the Arif Press, Berkeley.