Essays
My Father's Life
On Writing
Fires
John Gardner : The Writer as Teacher

Poems
One :
Drinking While Driving
Luck
Distress Sale
Your Dog Dies
Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year
Hamid Ramouz (1818-1906)
Bankruptcy
The Baker
Iowa Summer
Alcohol
For Semra, With Martial Vigor
Looking for Work
Cheers
Rogue River Jet-Boat Trip, Gold Beach, Oregon, July 4,1977

Two :
You Don't Know What Love Is

Three :
Morning, Thinking of Empire
The Blue Stones
Tel Aviv and Life on the Mississippi
The News Carried to Macedonia
The Mosque in Jaffa
Not Far From Here
Sudden Rain
Balzac
Country Matters
This Room
Rhodes
Spring, 480 B.C.

Four :
Near Klamath
Autumn
Winter Insomnia
Prosser
At Night the Salmon Move
With a Telescope Rod on Cowiche Creek
Poems for Dr. Pratt, A Lady Pathologist
Marriage
The Other Life
The Mailman as Concer Patient
Poems for Hemingway & W.C.Williams
Torture
Bobber
Highway 99E From Chico
The Cougar
The Current
Hunter
Trying to Sleep Late on A Saturday Morning in November
Louise
Poems for Karl Wallenda, Aerialist Supreme
Deschutes River
Forever

Stories
Distance
The Lie
The Cabin
Harry's Death
The Pheasant
Where is Everyone?
So much Water So Close to Home