Cover
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Coming into the American West
Chapter 1: Dressing for Fire
Chapte 2: Snowalking
Chapter 3: Walking into the Desert
Chapter 4: Letter from the Blackstone River
Chapter 5: Minot, North Dakota
Chapter 6: Walden Pond in the Desert
Chapter 7: Because the Land is So Bare: The Poetry of Joanne de Longchamps
Chapter 8: Adrian C. Louis and the Fire Water World
Chapter 9: The Desert Outside: Thinking of Richard Shelton
Part 2: Most of What I Believe Was Found in Poetry’s Ancient Hands
Chapter 10: My Journey to Hayden Carruth: Falling Down to Understand
Chapter 11: From Sorrow’s Well: On Hayden Carruth’s Resolute Poetics
Chapter 12: Before I Knew Her Mind: A Dream of Carolyn Kizer
Chapter 13: If I Had Wheels or Love
Chapter 14: From the Ash of Human Feeling: Teaching Poetry behind the Fence
Chapter 15: Looking for William Stafford on the Yard
Chapter 16: The Magnet Pull in a Poem
Chapter 17: Sing, Before the Long Silence Returns
Part 3: What Border to Cross?
Chapter 18: A Poet Returns to Ireland
Chapter 19: In the Library of Chile Pickers, Fisherman, and Vicente’s Stone
Chapter 20: Below Swifts in the Albayzin
Chapter 21: Fourteen Days in South Africa: Healing and Contradiction at Land’s End
Chapter 22: Letter from Zimbabwe
Chapter 23: Fadhil in the New World: How Humor Saved an Iraqi Poet
Chapter 24: Trying to Cross the Island Between Us
Chapter 25: Without a Way Home
Postscript: Donald Hall’s Reflection in the Sand
Acknowledgments
About the Author