Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost -- Auspex / Gift outright / Annie / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Defeat / Witter Bynner -- Compensation / Robinson Jeffers -- Eye / Me and my uncle / Folksongs -- Jesse James / Streets of Laredo / Buffalo skinners / Bookmarks / Thomas Hornsby Ferril -- Science came West / Hollywood / Bertolt Brecht -- Landscape of exile / For John Muir, a century and more after his time / Janet Lewis -- Chippewa: "Sometimes I go about" / Tribal poems -- Yokuts: 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 / Tribal songs -- Chemehuevi: Love song / Sanpoil: After hunting / Yuma: Death song / Sioux: "The earth is all that lives" / Journey / Yvor Winters -- On rereading a passage from John Muir / John Sutter / To the Holy Spirit / Rattlesnake / Brewster Ghiselin -- Headland / From Andree Rexroth Kings River Canyon / Kenneth Roxroth -- Rose / Theodore Roethke -- West from Ithaca / Josephine Miles -- Montana pastoral / J. V. Cunningham -- From To what strangers, what welcome / Montana fifty years ago / California winter / Karl Shapiro -- Western town / California petrarchan / Mojave evening / Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Second coming / Two cities / Weldon Kees -- At the bomb testing site / William Stafford -- Tillamook burn / In the Oregon Country / What ever happened to the Beats? / Traveling through the dark / Four horsemen / Ann Stanford -- Vegas / Charles Bukowski -- Genesis / Lee Gerlach -- How everything was in the end resolved in California / Charles Foster -- West / Louis Simpson -- Redwoods / Sequoia / Zbigniew Herbert -- Pawnee dust / John Haines -- Ghost Town / Alive in the world / Men against the sky / Someone in San Francisco / Edgar Bowers -- Breakages / Henry James by the Pacific / Donald Justice -- Banjo dog variations / After work: Foreword / Alan Stephens -- From Water among the stones along the Matilija / End of something (XVI) / Yucca Whipplei (XVII) / Tumbleweed / David Wagoner -- Fire by the river / Extras / Henri Coulette -- From The Hermit: Elsewhere / Quake / Garden / Frontier / James Wright -- Outside Fargo, North Dakota / On his way to Wyoming / William Dickey -- Coyote's song / Hitching into Frisco / Thom Gunn -- Los Angeles place names / Charles Gullans -- From Many houses, part 1 / San Francisco Streets / From Landscapes, The city / Bert Meyers -- Drive / Pity and fear / Miller Williams -- Collecting the animals / Peter Everwine -- Marsh, New Year's Day / How it is / This ain't my first rodeo [Vern Gosden, Max D. Barnes and Hank Cochran] / Country and Western lyrics -- A better class of losers [Randy Travis and Alan Jackson] / Country and Western Lyrics -- Lone Star state of mind [Fred Koller] / Faster horses [Tom T. Hall] / Country and Wesern lyrics -- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder -- Hay for the horses / Granite intrusive / Dick Barnes -- Few and far between / On a painting by David Hockney / Pomona laundresses / Shoot out / Willie Boy / Erles / Trophy hunt / Bagdad Chase Road in July / When we sold the tent / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Sonora wind / Richard Shelton -- From whatever became of me / Requiem for Sonora / Lunch at Deer Creek / John Ridland -- Black Angel / Shack outside Boise / Vern Rutsala -- Fort Sill / N. Scott Momaday -- Earth and I gave you turquoise / Laguna blues / Charles Wright -- From The Donner Party. Land logic / George Keithley -- In Texas: variation on a Theme of Borges' / Robert Mezey -- My fifty-plus years celebrate Spring / Luis Salinas -- Jacumba / Steve Kowit -- Utica, North Platte / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Eagle / Glover Davis -- Abandoned farmhouse / Ted Kooser -- Mrs. Jones / Country-Western music / A summer night / Road kill / Ron Koertge -- Ruidoso, N. M. / Looking West / Olivia Simpson Ellis -- Signing your life away / Diary of a lost girl / Michael Shepler -- Out there in the dark / Moment / C. G. Hanzlicek -- Men / B. H. Fairchild -- Brazil / No name / Nancy Ware -- Taking a walk on Sunday / Michael Creagan -- Poet at seventeen / Larry Levis -- Winter night under Black Mountain / Greg Pape -- At Rose's Range / R. S. Gwynn -- A shore / Timothy Steele -- One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornados as far west as Ely / Lynn Emanuel -- Chapter forever / David St. John -- Buffalo commons / Timothy Murphy -- Last sod busters / "It is very far north..." / Failure / No so much on the land as in the wind / James Galvin -- Three sonnets / Notes taken at Ocean Beach, San Francisco / Suzanne Lummis -- Poem noir / Earthquake / Wet Camp / Alberto Rios -- Spring in the only place spring was / Supremes / Mark Jarman -- Saturday at the canal / Gary Soto -- Heart's desire / Suzanne Doyle -- Laguna Beach breakdown / Joe Bolton -- Lights at Newport Beach / Days of summer gone / Joe Bolton