Turtle Island. [electronic resource]

Poems.

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.

Manzanita: Anasazi -- Way west, underground -- Without -- Dead by the side of the road -- I went into the Maverick Bar -- Steak -- No matter, never mind -- Bath -- Coyote Valley spring -- Spell against demons -- Front lines -- Control burn -- Great mother -- Call of the wild -- Prayer for the great family -- Source -- Manzanita -- Charms -- Facts -- Real work -- Pine tree tops -- For nothing -- Night herons -- Egg -- Uses of light -- On San Gabriel Ridges -- Frazier Creek Falls -- Black Mesa Mine #1 -- Up branches of Duck River -- It pleases -- Hemp -- Wild mushroom -- Mother Earth: Her whales -- Affluence -- Ethnobotany -- Straight Creek-Great Burn -- Hudsonian Curlew -- Two fawns that didn't see the light this spring -- Two immortals -- Rain in Alleghany -- Avocado -- What steps -- Shy log truck drivers rise earlier than students of Zen -- Bedrock -- Dazzle -- "One should not talk to a skilled hunter about what is forbidden by the Buddha" -- LMFBR -- Walking home from "Duchess of Malfi" -- Magpie's Song -- For the children: -- O waters -- Gen -- Dusty braces -- Jemez Pueblo Ring -- Tomorrow's song -- What happened here before -- Toward climax -- For the children -- As for poets -- Plain talk: Four changes -- "Energy is eternal delight" -- Wilderness -- What's meant by "Here" -- On "As for Poets."