"Membership in a real world": an introduction to the writer and his work -- From myth criticism to mythopoesis: myths & texts -- Working rhythms: Riprap and Cold mountain poems -- Passing and returning: Passage through India and The back country -- The waves of household and marriage: Earth house hold and Regarding wave -- Reinhabiting the land: Turtle Island -- Handing down the practice: Axe handles and Left out in the rain -- Of wilderness and wilderness in plain language: the practice of the wild -- Sifting and selecting: no nature and a place in space -- The calligraphy of water on rock: mountains and rivers without end.