| 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 Millennium | p. 390 |
| Poetry | |
| from Riprap | |
| Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout | p. 399 |
| Piute 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 Altar" | 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 Manichaeans | 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 Stomochs, 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[degree] West, Latitude 35[degree] 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 Laoghable" | 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. 525 |
| "In My First Thirty Years of Life" | p. 525 |
| "There's a Naked Bug at Cold Mouatain" | 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 |
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