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.