Foreword p. xv
Author's Note p. xxi
Prose
from Earth House Hold
Lookout's Journal p. 5
Japan First Time Around p. 24
Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji p. 34
Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture p. 41
Passage to More Than India p. 44
Poetry and the Primitive p. 52
Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan Ashram p. 62
from He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village
The Myth p. 71
Function of the Myth p. 75
from The Real Work
The East West Interview p. 91
from Passage Through India
The Cambodge p. 129
Pondicherry p. 135
Khajuraho p. 139
Dharamshala p. 141
Dalai Lama p. 144
Letters
to Philip Whalen (1954-1961) p. 149
to Will Petersen (1957-1958) p. 160
from The Practice of the Wild
The Etiquette of Freedom p. 167
The Place, the Region, and the Commons p. 183
Blue Mountains Constantly Walking p. 200
Ancient Forests of the Far West p. 214
Grace p. 235
from A Place in Space
Smokey the Bear Sutra p. 241
Four Changes, with a Postscript p. 245
"Energy Is Eternal Delight" p. 254
Unnatural Writing p. 257
The Porous World p. 263
Coming into the Watershed p. 267
Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net p. 277
from The Great Clod Project
"Wild" in China p. 287
Walls Within Walls p. 296
The Brush p. 313
The Paris Review Interview p. 319
Selections from Journals
Japan, "Of All the Wild Sakura" p. 341
Australia p. 349
Ladakh p. 353
Botswana and Zimbabwe p. 360
Uncollected Essays
Walking the Great Ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail p. 371
Walking Downtown Naha p. 383
Is Nature Real? p. 387
Entering the Fiftieth Millenium p. 390
from Riprap
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout p. 399
Piure Creek p. 400
Milton by Firelight p. 401
Above Pate Valley p. 402
Hay for the Horses p. 403
Riprap p. 404
from Myths and Texts
from "Logging"
"The Morning Star Is Not a Star" p. 407
"But Ye Shall Destroy Their Altars" p. 407
"Lodgepole Pine: The Wonderful Reproductive" p. 408
"Each Dawn Is Clear" p. 409
"The Groves Are Down" p. 410
"Lodgepole" p. 410
from "Hunting"
First Shaman Song p. 411
This Poem Is for Bear p. 412
This Poem Is for Deer p. 413
"Sealion, Salmon, Offshore--" p. 415
"Flung from Demonic Wombs" p. 416
"How Rare to Be Born a Human Being!" p. 416
from "Burning"
Maudgalyayana Saw Hell p. 417
John Muir on Mt. Ritter p. 418
Amitabha's Vow p. 419
"Spikes of New Smell Driven up Nostrils" p. 419
"Stone-flake and Salmon" p. 421
"'Wash Me on Home, Mama'" p. 422
from The Back Country
A Berry Feast p. 425
The Spring p. 429
A Walk p. 430
Burning the Small Dead p. 431
Foxtail Pine p. 432
Oil p. 433
After Work p. 434
Four Poems for Robin p. 435
Work to Do Toward Town p. 437
The Manichaens p. 438
Artemis p. 439
Mother of the Buddhas p. 440
Nature Green Shit p. 441
Twelve Hours Out of New York p. 442
Hop, Skip, and Jump p. 443
Through the Smoke Hole p. 444
Nanao Knows p. 446
from Regarding Wave
Wave p. 449
In the House of the Rising Sun p. 450
Song of the Taste p. 451
Kyoto Born in Spring Song p. 452
Everybody Lying on Their Stomachs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing p. 453
Shark Meat p. 454
The Bed in the Sky p. 455
Regarding Wave p. 456
Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution p. 457
Sours of the Hills p. 458
To Fire p. 459
Love p. 460
Meeting the Mountains p. 461
Long Hair p. 462
from Turtle Island
Without p. 465
I Went Into the Maverick Bar p. 466
No Matter, Never Mind p. 467
The Bath p. 468
Control Burn p. 471
Prayer for the Great Family p. 472
Source p. 473
For Nothing p. 474
The Egg p. 475
Pine Tree Tops p. 476
By Frazier Creek Falls p. 477
Mother Earth: Her Whales p. 478
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen p. 480
"One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter About What Is Forbidden by the Buddha" p. 481
Magpie's Song p. 482
O Waters p. 483
For the Children p. 484
As for Poets p. 485
from Axe Handles
Axe Handles p. 489
River in the Valley p. 490
Changing Diapers p. 491
Walking Through Myoshin-ji p. 492
Working on the '58 Willys Pickup p. 493
For/From Lew p. 494
Getting in the Wood p. 495
True Night p. 496
24:IV:40075, 3:30PM p. 498
Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar p. 499
Breasts p. 500
Old Woman Nature p. 501
The Canyon Wren p. 502
For All p. 504
from Left Out in the Rain
Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout p. 507
Seeing the Ox p. 507
Longitude 170 West, Latitude 35 North p. 508
For Example p. 509
English Lessons at the Boiler Company p. 510
Farewell to Burning Island p. 510
No Shoes No Shirt No Service p. 511
Poetry Is the Eagle of Experience p. 512
Calcium p. 512
At White River Roadhouse p. 513
The Persimmons p. 514
For Berkeley p. 516
"There are those who love to get dirty" p. 516
Sestina of the End of the Kalpa p. 517
How Zen Masters Are Like Mature Herring p. 518
from Cold Mountain Poems [Translations]
"The Path to Han-shan's Place Is Laughable" p. 524
"In a Tangle of Cliffs I Chose a Place--" p. 524
"Men Ask the Way to Cold Mountain" p. 524
"I Settled at Cold Mountain Long Ago" p. 524
"I Have Lived at Cold Mountain" p. 524
"In My First Thirty Years of Life" p. 525
"There's a Naked Bug at Cold Mountain" p. 525
"Cold Mountain Is a House" p. 525
"Some Critic Tried to Put Me Down--" p. 526
"When Men See Han-shan" p. 526
from Miyazawa Kenji [Translations]
Spring and the Ashura p. 530
Floating World Picture: Spring in the Kitagami Mountains p. 532
Cloud Semaphore p. 533
The Politicians p. 534
Thief p. 534
Sixteen T'ang Poems [Translations] p. 535
Long Bitter Song [Translations] p. 545
from No Nature
How Poetry Comes to Me p. 557
On Climbing the Sierra Matterhorn Again After Thirty-one Years p. 557
The Sweat p. 558
Building p. 560
Off the Trail p. 562
Word Basket Woman p. 563
Right in the Trail p. 565
For Lew Welch in a Snowfall p. 567
Ripples on the Surface p. 568
from Mountains and Rivers Without End
Bubbs Creek Haircut p. 571
The Blue Sky p. 576
The Flowing p. 580
Arctic Midnight Twilight p. 584
Walking the New York Bedrock p. 587
New Moon Tongue p. 591
Macaques in the Sky p. 592
Raven's Beak River at the End p. 593
Cross Legg'd p. 595
We Wash Our Bowls in This Water p. 596
Earth Verse p. 598
Finding the Space in the Heart p. 599
New Poems
Icy Mountains Constantly Walking p. 605
Summer of Ninety-Seven p. 606
"This present moment" p. 608
Chronology p. 611
Index p. 615