390 INDEX
Mount Rainier (Washington), 177, 179,
273–74
Mount St. Helens (Washington), 354
Mount Tamalpais (California), 116, 213–14
“The Mouth of the Hudson” (Lowell), 264–65
“The Move to California” (Stafford), 253
“Mowing” (Frost), 117
Moyers, Bill, 307
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 12
Muir, John, 9, 67, 80, 100, 104, 177, 346
Murray, Les, 357
Muybridge, Eadweard, 157
Nagasaki (Japan), 128, 197
Names and naming, 1–2, 14, 15, 21–23, 26, 81;
Adam’s, 2, 21–22, 66, 81, 303, 336; in Emer-
son, 66; Hopkins, 94–95; Levertov, 267;
Merwin, 306, 307; Walcott, 338, 341; Wil-
liams, 150
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” (Dickinson),
xiii, 7, 21, 82–86, 139, 163, 208, 218, 232,
241, 329
Native Americans, 7, 67, 136, 227; in Central
and South America, 194, 195, 197, 201, 304,
336–37; environmental practices of, 176,
221; European conquest of North Ameri-
can, 8–10, 12–13, 152; in Haines, 282, 286,
287–88; Jeffers, 172; Kunitz, 204–5; lan-
guages and poetry of, xiv, 1, 4, 172, 202,
289, 337, 343, 357; Roethke, 221; Snyder,
227, 351–53; Stafford, 252–53; on “web of
life,” 6. See also Specific tribes
Nature, and animism, 218; earthly and divine
linked in, 19–27, 94–103, 260–61, 266–74;
as unknowable, 20, 78–81, 86, 164, 166,
226, 237; women yoked to, 24, 195–96, 199,
- See also Animals; Earth; Flowers
and plants; Land; Pollution; Rocks; Trees;
Water; Wilderness
Nature(Emerson), 66–67
Nature(Swenson), 246
“‘Nature ’ is what we see” (Dickinson), 81
Navajo Indians, 12, 13, 227
Neruda, Pablo, 194–201, 356, 366;“Entrada
a la madera,” 196; Heights of Macchu Pic-
chu, 196–201, 285, 338, 342, 356; “Inunda-
ciones,” 196–97; “Ode to Laziness,” 201;
and other poets, 34, 159, 214–15, 271, 285,
314, 336; Residence on Earth, 196; “Sere-
nata,” 196; translation of, 302
New England Primer, 125–26
New Hampshire, Frost in, 116, 117–19, 123;
Hall and Kenyon in, 318–20; Kumin in,
290–93
New Jersey, 14, 141–43, 157–60, 296–97
New Mexico, 162–69, 189, 212
News (from poems), 3–4, 7–8, 13–15, 160–61,
188, 208, 245, 279, 298, 307, 355–56
News from the Glacier (Haines), 284
“New World” (Momaday), 357
“The Nightingale ’s Nest” (Clare), 7, 58–59,
63
“The 90th Year” (Levertov), 267
Nobel Prize, 335, 338
North American Sequence (Roethke), 220,
221–22
North Carolina, 295–96; Not Man Apart
(Sierra Club book), 170
Nova Scotia, 228, 233, 234, 286
Nursery rhymes, 29“Observations from a Penitentiary Window”
(Knight), 356
Oceans. See Water
“October” (Frost), 117–18, 322
“Ode. Intimations of Immortality” (Words-
worth), 35
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats), 30, 43, 49–
50, 52, 53, 133, 235, 289, 342
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 31, 46, 52,
53, 67, 105, 218, 306
“Ode to Laziness” (Neruda), 201
“Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley), 31, 52
Of Plymouth Plantation (Bradford), 20
“Oh, Lovely Rock” (Jeffers), 174
Oil drilling, 8, 11, 12, 160, 174
Oliver, Mary, xiv, 357
Omeros(Walcott), 336–38
“Once by the Pacific” (Frost), 116
“One Home” (Stafford), 252
Oppen, George, 223–27,367; “Psalm,” 5, 15,
24, 224–27, 244, 291, 310, 329, 344
“Orca” (Jeffers), 175
Oregon, 9, 251, 344, 352
The Oregon Trail (Parkman), 9
Organic form, 66, 154, 272
The Origin of Species (Darwin), 95
Ortiz, Simon, 357
“Our People” (Stafford), 252–53
“The Owl” (Thomas), 134
Ox-Cart Man (Hall), 319–22Pagis, Dan, 276
Painting, in caves, 165, 227, 286, 304; Pissar-