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Book

A place in space : ethics, aesthetics, and watersheds : new and selected prose

Call Number

  • 814 S675.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, c1995.

Physical Description

263 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

  • Contents: Note (p.vii)
  • Ethics. North Beach (p.3)
  • "Notes on the beat generation" and "The new wind" (p.7)
  • A virus runs through it (p.19)
  • Smokey the bear sutra (p.25)
  • Four changes, with a postscript (p.32)
  • The yogin and the philosopher (p.47)
  • "Energy is eternal delight" (p.52)
  • Earth day and the war against the imagination (p.56)
  • Nets of beads, webs of cells (p.65)
  • A village council of all beings (p.74)
  • Aesthetics. Goddess of mountains and rivers (p.85)
  • What poetry did in China (p.91)
  • Amazing grace (p.94)
  • The old masters and the old women (p.99)
  • A single breath (p.100)
  • Energy from the moon (p.117)
  • Walked into existence (p.121)
  • The politics of ethnopoetics (P.126)
  • The incredible survival of coyote (p.148)
  • Unnatural writing (p.163)
  • Language goes two ways (p.173).
  • Contents (cont.): Watersheds. Reinhabitation (p.183)
  • The porous world (p.192)
  • The forest in the library (p.199)
  • Exhortations for baby tigers (p.205)
  • Walt Whitman's old "new world" (p.214)
  • Coming into the watershed (p.219)
  • The rediscovery of Turtle Island (p.236)
  • Kitkitdizze : a node in the net (p.252).