• Contents 
• Introduction
• I. 
• ESSAYS
• The Delicacy of Walt Whitman
• Far from the Madding Crowd: An Afterword
• The Absorbing Eye of Dickens
• The Madmen in Barnaby Rudge
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Afterword
• Meditations on René Char
• Theodor Storm: Foreword
• A Note on Trakl
• A Note on Cesar Vallejo
• Translator's Note on Herman Hesse
• Frost: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
• A Master of Silence
• The Work of Gary Snyder
• II. 
• SOME NOTES ON CHINESE POETRY, A SERMON, AND FOUR INTERVIEWS
• Some Notes on Chinese Poetry
• Of Things Invisible
• An Interview with Michael André
• Something to Be Said for the Light: A Conversation with William Heyen and Jerome Mazzaro
• Poetry Must Think: An Interview with Bruce Henricksen
• The Pure Clear Word: An Interview with Dave Smith
• III. 
• REVIEWS
• The Stiff Smile of Mr. Warren
• The Terrible Threshold
• Hardy's Poetry: A Study and a Selection
• A Shelf of New Poets
• The Few Poets of England and America
• Gravity and Incantation
• A Plain Brave Music
• James Wright on Roger Hecht
• “I Come to Speak for Your Dead Mouths”
• Secrets of the Inner Landscape
• IV. 
• MEMOIRS
• On the Occasion of a Poem: Richard Hugo
• On the Occasion of a Poem: Bill Knott
• The Infidel
• Childhood Sketch

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