| Description |
209 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
A poetic autobiography that traces the author's life from his boyhood in Oregon to San Francisco, Kyoto and New York, and to his home in the Sierra foothills of northern California. |
| Contents |
Elk Trails -- Out of the soil and Rock -- Lines on a Carp -- A Sinecure for P. Whalen -- For George Leigh-Mallory -- Spring Songs -- Message from Outside -- A Change of Straw -- Under the Skin of It -- Dogs, sheep, cows, Goats -- Birth of the Shaman -- The Painful -- Her Life -- Still. She -- Tiger Song -- Poorness and -- You've Gone Cold -- Love me Love -- Half-known Stars -- Up the Dosewallips -- Seaman's Ditty -- Bakers Cabin on Boone's Ferry Road -- Numerous Broken Eggs -- The Lookouts -- History Must Have a Start -- Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout -- Geological Meditation -- Fording the Flooded Goldie River -- Svaha a Feminine Ending for Mantra -- Wind has Blown -- Song for a Cougar Hide -- Plum Petals Falling -- The Rainy Season -- The Genji Story -- Late October Camping in the Sawtooths -- Point Reyes -- April -- Makings -- Longitude 170 West, Latitude 35 North -- For Example -- Chion-In -- Bomb Test -- Dullness in February: Japan -- Map -- The Feathered Robe -- On Vulture Peak -- The Bodhisattvas -- A Monument on Okinawa -- Straits of Malacca 24 oct 1957 -- The Engine Room, S.S. Sappa Creek -- Hills of Home -- The North Coast -- One Year -- Housecleaning in Kyoto -- Seeing the Ox -- After the Typhoon -- Loving Words -- The Heart of the Wood -- Joanne My Wife -- Tenjin -- Parting with Claude Dalenberg -- Crash -- Two Comments -- Riding the hot electric train -- Foreigners -- Kyoto Vacation -- This is Living -- In Tokyo: At Loose Ends -- English Lessons at the Bolier Company -- From Below -- The Fruit -- The Ride -- Then -- Saying Farewell -- Farewell to Burning Island -- First Landfall on Turtle Island -- Alabster -- The Years -- Burned Out -- O -- To Meet with Agaricus Augustus -- Too Many Chickens Gone -- For Alan Watts -- Original Vow -- No Shoes No Shirt No Service -- Kine -- The Trail Is Not a Trail -- Poetry Is the Eagle of Experience -- Calcium -- High Quality Information -- The Arts Council Meets in Eureka -- Ordering Chile Verde in Gallup -- Getting There -- Sustained Yield -- Low Winter Sun -- The Weave -- Enforcement -- Yuba Country Autumn -- The Spirits Wait -- Bear -- Arktos -- Fear Not -- I See Old Friend -- Waikiki -- She Dreames -- We Make Our Vows -- At Write River Roadhouse -- The Persimmons -- Dragonfly -- Through -- Spring -- For Berkeley -- The Songs at Custer's Battlefield -- Some lovers wake one day -- What History fails to Mention Is -- Channelled Scablands -- The Taste -- Home on the Range -- The Forest Fire at Ananda -- The Route -- The Other Side of Each Coin -- Serves -- W -- The Net -- Tibetan Army Surplus Store -- Lots of Play -- The Orchard -- Know -- Gatha for All Threatened Beings -- There are those who love to get dirty -- Lizards, Wind, Sunshine, Apples -- How Zen Master Are Like Mature Herring -- Villanelle of the Wandering Lapps -- The Professor as Transformer -- The Elusiad -- The Third Watch -- Sestina of the End of the Kalpa -- Epistemological Fancies -- A War of Dwarfs and Birds -- Exclamations Gone to the -- Balled of Rolling Heads -- After T'ao Ch'ien -- After the Chinese -- Versions of Anacreon -- Tree Song -- Joe Hill Fragment -- Prepotent -- A Work for Burke -- Smog -- Sherry in July -- Coyote Man, Mr. President. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| ISBN |
0865472688 (alk. paper) |
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9780865472686 (alk. paper) |
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086547267X (hard ; alk. paper) |
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9780865472679 (hard ; alk. paper) |
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