Keith James Holyoak

(born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian-Ame;rican researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking.[1] His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults,[2] as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brain damage.

Holyoak is also a poet. He has published three collections of his own poems, My Minotaur, Foreigner and The Gospel According to Judas, as well as a collection of translations of classical Chinese poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, Facing the Moon.

 Keith Holyoak, 2005                                              

Drinking Alone Under the Moon                                 

Alone among the flowers with a jug of wine,
Without a single friend to drink with me,
I lift my glass and invite the bright moon to come
Join in-now the moon, my shadow and I make three.

I know the moon is not a famous drinker,
My shadow's toast no more than mimicry,
And yet for a little while the three of us
Carouse in springtime camaraderie.

I sing, and the moon sways to and fro in rhythm;
I dance, and my shadow floats in harmony.
Drinking, we share our joys with one another;
After, we'll need to find them separately.

Let's meet again, at the end of the Silver River,
And there, my friends, resume our revelry!