382 INDEX
Arnold, Matthew, 91
Aruac people, 337
“The Asians Dying” (Merwin), 307–8
“As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life”
(Whitman), 76
“Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (Williams),
160–61
Atomic bombs, 160, 197, 269, 271, 354
Attentiveness (Attention; Mindfulness), 3, 13,
30, 56, 81, 100, 170, 177, 183, 207, 219, 223,
229, 244, 256, 258, 269, 297, 304, 331, 349,
357
“At the Bomb Testing Site” (Stafford), 257–58
“At the Winter Solstice” (Kenyon), 325–26
Auden, W. H., 89, 336
Audubon, John James, 14, 183
Australia and Australians, xiv, 1, 162
Autobiography (Williams), 158
“Autumn Crocus” (Kaufman), 278–79, 356
“The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into
the New World” (Kinnell), 314–15, 356
“The Ax-Helve” (Frost), 126, 351
Bacon, Francis, 20, 360
“Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times”
(Villon), 186
Ballisodare (Ireland), 106
“A Bangkok Gong” (Kumin), 293
Bash ̄o (poet), 4
Bate, Jonathan, 49, 62, 361
Baudelaire, Charles, 146
“The Bear” (Faulkner), 314
“The Bear” (Kinnell), 183, 311–14, 329
Beat poets, 344, 351
“Because I could not stop for Death”
(Dickinson), 87
Bees, 81, 109, 117, 184, 215, 230, 245, 246, 356
Beowulf, 80, 218, 303
“Bereft” (Frost), 126
Berry, Wendell, xiv, 357
Bible, xiv, 1–2, 19–27, 214, 296, 336, 360;
animals in, 1–2, 5, 25–26, 165–66, 218;
influence on poets, 23–26, 66–73, 336; on
subduing and having dominion over the
earth, 2, 5, 8, 10, 19–21, 26, 34, 67–68, 79,
138, 261. See also Psalms;Specific Biblical
figures
Big Sur (California), 171, 174
“Binsey Poplars” (Hopkins), 99, 208, 269, 271
“Birches” (Frost), 120
“A Bird came down the Walk” (Dickinson),
79–81
Birds, 6, 11–12, 22; in Ammons, 299–300;
Berry, 357; Bishop, 234, 237; Clare, 7, 56,
58–59, 62–63; Dickinson, 78–81, 219; Frost,
117, 124, 134–35, 310; Haines, 286; Hardy,
89–90; Hopkins, 98, 303, 327, 329; Hughes,
7, 80, 303, 329–30, 332; Jeffers, 172, 175,
189, 232, 287, 329; Johnson, 356; Kaufman,
280; Keats, 31, 46, 52, 53, 67, 105, 218, 306;
Kinnell, 309–10, 315; Kumin, 291; Kunitz,
202–3; Lawrence, 166, 167; Levertov, 267,
268; Lowell, 263, 267, 271; Merwin, 304;
Millay, 188–89, 191; Momaday, 357; Moore,
183; Neruda, 198, 201, 356; Rexroth, 212,
213; Shelley, 67, 218; Snyder, 346, 350;
Stafford, 3, 252–56, 272, 329; Stevens,
136–38; Swenson, 239, 244–45, 247, 248;
Thomas, 130, 131–32, 134; Tu Fu, 211; Una
Jeffers, 171; Walcott, 342, 343; Whitman,
73, 218, 329; Williams, 143, 144–45; Yeats,
81, 107, 108–9, 203, 271. See also Condors
Birds, Beasts and Flowers! (Lawrence), 162–63,
167, 351
“Birds’ Nests” (Thomas), 130
Bishop, Elizabeth, 5, 15, 228–38, 286, 291, 356,
357, 367; “The Armadillo,” 237–38, 291,
329; “The Fish,” 183, 236–37, 239, 329; and
Moore, 229, 237, 246; “The Moose,” 218,
228–33, 235, 238, 286, 329; and painting,
147; “Poem,” 233–36, 340; and Swenson,
239, 241, 246, 248
Bison.See Buffalo
“Blackberry Eating” (Kinnell), 317
Black Elk (Sioux shaman), 10, 288
Black Mesa Mine (Arizona), 12
Blake, William, 2, 4, 34–35, 356, 361;“Jerusa-
lem,” 34, 35; on nature ’s barrenness without
humans, 34, 39, 150, 353; and other poets,
107, 199, 208, 219, 220, 348, 353; “The Ty-
ger,” 34, 168, 218
“The Blind Seer of Ambon” (Merwin), 301–2,
308
“Blueflags” (Williams), 144
Bodsworth, Fred, 304
Boissevain, Eugen, 188, 191
“The Bones” (Merwin), 302
Book of Common Prayer, 23, 26, 360
Boone, Daniel, 8, 151, 152, 359
Boston (Massachusetts), 116, 228–29, 262, 263,
356
Botticelli, Sandro, 339
Bowles, Samuel, 82, 83, 87
Bradford, William, 20, 360