This general issue of Mosaic offers essays that circulate on themes of finding, losing, and searching. For example, essays go searching for a Canada between nationalism and regionalism, or find a silence in John Keats that loses the medium of silence, or searching for the meaning of “the lost child.” Poetic patterns are found and lost, as are spirits, religion, unity, and meaning in essays on Keats, W.B. Yeats, Goethe, Sean O’Casey, William Blake and John Milton, Wallace Stevens, Franz Kafka, Gary Snyder, Pierre de Ronsard, Joseph Conrad, and the Bible.