Dressing for fire -- Snowalking -- Walking into the desert -- Letter from the Blackstone River : under fog with the porcupine caribou -- Minot, North Dakota : when the sky begins to unravel -- Walden Pond in the desert -- Because the land is so bare : the poetry of Joanne de Longchamps -- Adrian C. Louis and the fire water world -- The desert outside : thinking about Richard Shelton -- Most of what I believe was found in poetry's ancient hands -- My journey to Hayden Carruth : falling down to understand -- From sorrow's well : on Hayden Carruth's resolute poetics -- Before I knew her mind : a dream of Carolyn Kizer -- If I had wheels or love -- From the ash of human feeling : teaching poetry behind the fence -- Looking for William Stafford on the yard -- The magnetic pull in a poem -- Sing, before the long silence returns -- What border to cross? -- A poet returns to Ireland -- In the library of chile pickers, fishermen, and Vicente's stone -- Below swifts in the Albayzón -- Fourteen days in South Africa ; healing and contradiction at Land's End -- Letter from Zimbabwe -- Fadhil in the new world : how humor saved an Iraqi poet -- Trying to cross the island between us -- Without a way home.
Summary:
"This is a book of essays about the American West, about poets and poetry, and about looking beyond our borders for reconciliation and lessons about how we might address similar issues at home."--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.