Introduction --

Straw for the fire (1953-62). --

Poetry: In the lap of a dream (1948-49) ; A nest of light (1948-49) ; The loveless provinces (1948-49) ; All the semblance, all the loss (1948-49) ; The stony garden (1949-50) ; The wrath of other winds (1949-50) ; In the bush of her bones (1949-50) ; The dark angel (1950-53) ; Love has me haunted (1950-53) ; The dance of the one-legged man (1951-53) ; Father-stem and mother-root (1951-53) ; The root of the wind (1951-53) ; Heart, you have no house (1951-53) ; The middle of a roaring world (1954-58) ; I sing other wonders (1954-58) ; Recall this heaven's light (1954-58) ; She took my eyes (1954-58) ; The plain speech of a crow (1954-62) ; In the large mind of love (1954-62) ; The things I steal from sleep (1954-62) ; Between the soul and flesh (1957) ; The mire's my home (1959-63) ; The desolation (1959-63) ; My flesh learned to die (1959-63) ; And time slows down (1960-63) ; The thin cries of the spirit (1959-63) ; My instant of forever (1959-63). --

Prose: All my lights go dark (1943-47) ; The cat in the classroom (1943-47) ; The turn of the wheel (1943-47) ; The poet's business (1943-47) ; Words for young writers (1948-49) ; The proverbs of purgatory (1948-49) ; I teach out of love (1949-53) ; First class (1950-53) ; The right to say maybe (1948-53) ; The hammer's knowledge (1954-58) ; From Roethke to Goethe (1954-58) ; The teaching of poetry (1954-58) ; These exasperations (1954-58) ; A psychic janitor (1959-63) ; The beautiful disorder (1954-63) --

About the author.