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Preface

Introduction / Brenda Peterson

David Wagoner

--Slightly Different Ways of Thinking: An Interview / Kate Gray

--Three Poems / David Wagoner

Denise Levertov

--Autobiographical Sketch (1984)

--Conversations and Tea with Denise / Colleen J. McElroy

--Feet (poem) / Denise Levertov

Sonia Sanchez

--A Retrospective Movement and the Writer's Life: An Interview / Lauri Conner

--Eleven Poems / Sonia Sanchez

Nelson Bentley

--A Biographical Sketch / Sean Bentley

--After Screening "In a Dark Time" / Sean Bentley

--Four Poems / Nelson Bentley

Richard Hugo

--Introduction / James Welch

--Seven Poems / Richard Hugo

Larry Levis

--Larry Levis in Syracuse / Stephen Dunn

--Larry Levis's "Spots of Time" / Gary Short

--Letter from Levis/Late September in Ulcinj

--Five Poems / Larry Levis

Diane Wakoski

--Let Us Begin to Sing: A Poet and Her Mountain--Diane Wakoski, 1999 / Edward Jenkinson

--Perfume (poem) / Diane Wakoski

Carolyn Kizer

--Introduction / Jeanine Marie Derusha

--Not Their History but Our Myth: An Interview / David Rigsbee and Stephen Ford Brown

--Five Poems / Carolyn Kizer

Lynda Barry

--Will You Climb Up to the Heavens That Enclose Us Above: A Talk with Lynda Barry, 2000 / Edward Jenkinson

--I Love My Master I Love My Master (poem) / Lynda Barry

Yusef Komunyakaa

--An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Sally Dawidoff

--Introduction

--Hagar's Daughter (poem)

--Shangri-La (libretto) / Yusef Komunyakaa

Marilyn Chin

--Foxtrot with Marilyn: An Interview / Tarisa Matsumoto

--Four Poems / Marilyn Chin

Ivan Doig

--Conversation with Middle-Class Cosmic Mechanic, Ivan Doig / Derek Sheffield

--Winter ot '19 (fiction) / Ivan Doig

William Stafford

--Talking Recklessly: An Interview with the Stafford Family / Derek Sheffield

--Holding the Roethke Chair: William Stafford's Prose Journal

--Prologue from Early Morning: Remembering My Father / Kim Stafford

--Six Poems / William Stafford

--Two Drafts of a Poem: "Two of a Kind"

Sharon Olds

--An Aesthetics of Beauty and the Somatic Poems of Sharon Olds: When Flesh Becomes Word / Linden Ontjes

--Looking Back at Some Revisions / Sharon Olds

Rick Bass

--Fitting in the West: A Conversation with Rick Bass / Douglas Heckman

Penetrations (fiction) / Rick Bass

N. Scott Momaday

--An Interview / Kathleen Wiegner

--N. Scott Momaday: Fiction, poetry, and essays / N. Scott Momaday

Bibliography of Major Works