What light can do: essays on art, imagination, and the natural world

A miscellany of short pieces to begin. Wallace Stevens in the world

Chekhov's anger

Howl at fifty

The kingdom of reversals : notes on Hosoe's Mishima

George Oppen : his art

Ernesto Cardenal : a Nicaraguan poet's beginning

A longer essay on literature and war. Study war no more : violence, literature and Immanuel Kant

Some California writers. Jack London in his time : Martin Eden

Mary Austin and The land of little rain

The fury of Robinson Jeffers

William Everson : some glimpses

Maxine Hong Kingston : notes on a woman warrior

Poets and the world. Ko Un and Korean poetry

Milosz at eighty

Milosz at ninety-three

Poetry and terror : some notes on Coming to Jakarta

Zukofsky at the outset

Tomaž Šalamun : an introduction

A bruised sky : two Chinese poets

Two essays on literature and religion. Reflections on the Epistles of John

Notes on poetry and spirituality

Three photographers and their landscapes. Robert Adams and Los Angeles

Robert Buelteman and the Coast Range

Laura McPhee and the river of no return

Three essays on (mainly) American poetry. On teaching poetry

Families and prisons

Edward Taylor : how American poetry got started

Imagining the earth. Cormac McCarthy's trilogy, or, The Puritan conscience and the Mexican dark

Black nature

Rivers and stories : an introduction

An oak grove.