| Foreword | |
| Robert Frost (1874-1963) | |
| Once by the Pacific Auspex | |
| The Gift Outright | |
| Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) | |
| Annie | |
| Witter Bynner (1881-1968) | |
| Defeat | |
| Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) | |
| Compensation The Eye | |
| Folksongs Me and My Uncle Jesse James | |
| The Streets of Laredo | |
| The Buffalo Skinners | |
| Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896-1988) | |
| Bookmarks Science Came West | |
| Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) | |
| Hollywood Landscape of Exile | |
| Janet Lewis (1899-1998) | |
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| Tribal Poems Chippewa | |
| "Sometimes I go about" | |
| Song of the Eclipse Makah | |
| Song Hidatsa | |
| We Made a Fire Papago | |
| Song of the Brown Buzzard Dakota | |
| Song of Reproach Chippewa | |
| Where the Fight Was Pawnee | |
| Better to Die Young Crow | |
| Prayer Offering Malecite | |
| Tale Pawnee | |
| Buffalo Dance Song Chemehuevi | |
| Love Song Sanpoil | |
| After Hunting Yuma | |
| Death Song Sioux | |
| "The earth is all that lives" | |
| Yvor Winters (1900-1968) | |
| The Journey On Rereading a Passage from John Muir John Sutter To the Holy Spirit | |
| Brewster Ghiselin (1903-1996) | |
| Rattlesnake Headland | |
| Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) | |
| From Andree Rexroth -Kings River Canyon | |
| Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) | |
| The Rose | |
| Josephine Miles (1911-1985) | |
| West from Ithaca | |
| J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985) | |
| Montana Pastoral From To What Strangers, What Welcome Montana Fifty Years Ago | |
| Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) | |
| California Winter Western Town California Petrarchan | |
| Virginia Hamilton Adair (b. 1913) | |
| Mojave Evening Second Coming | |
| Weldon Kees (1914-1955) | |
| Two Cities | |
| William Stafford (1914-1998) | |
| At the Bomb Testing Site | |
| The Tillamook Burn In the Oregon Country | |
| What Ever Happened to the Beats? | |
| Traveling Through the Dark | |
| Ann Stanford (1916-1987) | |
| The Four Horsemen | |
| Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) | |
| Vegas | |
| Lee Gerlac (b. 1920) | |
| Genesis | |
| Charles Goster (1922-1967) | |
| How Everything Was in the End Resolved in California | |
| Louis Simpson (b. 1923) | |
| West The Redwoods | |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) | |
| Sequoia | |
| John Haines (b. 1924) | |
| Pawnee Dust Ghost Town Alive in the World Men Against the Sky | |
| Edgar Bowers (1925-2000) | |
| Someone in San Francisco Breakages | |
| Donald Justice (b. 1925) | |
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| Alan Stephens (b. 1925) | |
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| The End of Something -XVII Yucca Whipplei | |
| David Wagoner (b. 1926) | |
| Tumbleweed Fire by the River | |
| Henri Coulette (1928-1989) | |
| The Extras From | |
| The Hermit -Elsewhere Quake | |
| The Garden | |
| James Wright (1928-1980) | |
| The Frontier Outside Fargo, North Dakota | |
| William Dickey (1928-1994) | |
| On His Way to Wyoming Coyote's Song | |
| Charles gullan (1929-1993) | |
| Los Angeles Place Names From | |
| Many Houses, Part 1 | |
| Thom Gunn (1929-2004) | |
| Hitching into Frisco San Francisco Streets | |
| Bert Meyers (1929-1979) | |
| From Landscapes -The City The Drive | |
| Miller Williams (b. 1930) | |
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| Peter Everwine (b. 1930) | |
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