A miscellany of short pieces to begin. Wallace Stevens in the world
The kingdom of reversals : notes on Hosoe's Mishima
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
Poetry and terror : some notes on Coming to Jakarta
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
Edward Taylor : how American poetry got started
Imagining the earth. Cormac McCarthy's trilogy, or, The Puritan conscience and the Mexican dark
Rivers and stories : an introduction
