Imagination in place: essays

Imagination in place

American imagination and the Civil War

Momentum of clarity

In memory: Wallace Stegner, 1909-1993

Speech after long silence

My friend Hayden

In memory: James Still

Master language

My conversation with Gurney Norman

Sweetness preserved

Some interim thoughts about Gary Snyder's "Mountains and rivers without end"

In memory: James Baker Hall

Against the nihil of the age

Uses of adversity

God, science, and imagination

Acknowledgments

Works cited.