Title:  Jim Love Up To Now Printing:  First Year of publication:  1980 Publisher:  Institute for the Arts, Rice University City:  Houston Number of Pages:  171 Cover:  paperback ISBN:  0-914412-16-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  80-82000 Barthelme's Contribution: Introduction (p. 8-13)
	Not long ago Jim Love found himself telling a friend that he, Love, had "cried sheep once too often." He cites this to his own discredit, as a lapsus linguae. I take it to be, rather, a happy instance of the artist's transformational prowess. Any fool can cry wolf; to cry sheep is inspired, the work of a subtle, contradancing mind.