Table of Contents:
  • Sand, wind, and buttes: Peggy Pond Church's lifetime love affair with the desert Southwest
  • Hootin' and hollerin' in the Rocky Mountain West: cowboy poetry, the land, and the modern reader
  • A terrible beauty: the Alaskan wilderness and the poetry of John Haines
  • Dispossessed: the poetic inferno of Adrian Louis
  • Surf, rivers, and salmon: the Northwest in the poetry of Richard Hugo
  • California as the world in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield.