INDEX 393324; Hopkins, 94, 100; Jeffers, 351; Lamen-
tations, 23; Moore, 179; Plato, 81; Psalms,
224; Shakespeare, 4; Williams, 150–51, 157
Sioux Indians, 9, 10, 252, 337
“Skunk Hour” (Lowell), 261–62
Slavery, 68–69, 152, 197, 338–39, 342
Sligo (Ireland), 104, 106, 112
“Small Song” (Ammons), 294
Smart, Christopher, 34, 218, 219
“Smoke” (Haines), 287
“Snake” (Lawrence), 5, 163–65, 168, 183, 208,
218, 232, 329
Snakes, in Dickinson, xiii, 7, 21, 82–83, 86,
139, 163, 208, 218, 232, 241, 329; Kunitz,
209, 218; Lawrence, 5, 163–65, 168, 183,
208, 218, 232, 329
“The Snakes of September” (Kunitz), 209,
218
“Snow by Morning” (Swenson), 241–42, 356
“The Snow Man” (Stevens), 139–40
“Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Hemingway), 168
Snyder, Gary, 5, 14, 329, 344–54, 357, 371;
“Anasazi,” 351–52; “By Frazier Creek
Falls,” 353; Danger on Peaks, 353–54; as
ecologic poet, xiv, 6, 344–54; on hunting
magic, 227; journals of, 346, 348–49;
“Kyoto: March,” 350; “Manzanita,” 351–
52; “Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain
Lookout,” 344, 346–47; Mountains and
Rivers Without End, 348; and other poets,
221, 286, 323, 346; Riprap, 344, 350–51; as
translator, 349–50; Turtle Island, 351–53
“So I Said I am Ezra” (Ammons), 296
Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow), 9–10
“Song of Myself ” (Whitman), xiii, 68–72,
103, 212, 218
Song of Songs (Bible), 24, 214
The Song of the Earth (Bate), 49, 62
“Song of the Wave” (Frost), 116
Sonnets, in Clare, 58; Frost, 127; Hopkins,
24–25, 95–98, 101, 103; Keats, 46, 52; Millay,
186–89; Shakespeare, 4, 49, 143
“The Source” (Williams), 153
Spain, 152, 172, 196, 197, 338, 339
Spanish Civil War, 159, 271
Specimen Days in America (Whitman), 73
Spenser, Edmund, 143, 146
“Splitting Wood at Six Above” (Kumin),
292–93
“Spring” (Hopkins), 97
Spring and All (Williams), 146–47, 149–51,
158, 159
“Spring and All” (Williams), 7, 142, 147–48,
150, 153, 217, 223, 272, 280–81
Springs (water). See Water
“Spring Showers” (Stieglitz photograph), 155
Stafford, William, 6, 13, 221, 227, 251–58, 329,
357, 367; “At the Bomb Testing Site,” 257–
58; “Ceremony,” 253; “The Earth,” 253;
“Midwest,” 252; “The Move to California,”
253; “One Home,” 252; “Our People,”
252–53; “Report to Crazy Horse,” 252;
“The Swerve,” 255; “Traveling through
the Dark,” 255; “Watching the Jet Planes
Dive,” 257, 355; “The Well Rising,”
3, 253–57, 272; West of Your City, 252;
“Witness,” 252
Stanford University, 157, 266
“The Stare ’s Nest by My Window” (Yeats),
81, 108–9, 264
The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Haines), 282
Steepletop farm (New York state), 188, 189,
192
Stegner, Wallace, 20–21, 360
Stevens, Wallace, 136–40,364; “The Idea of
Order at Key West,” 139; and other poets,
180, 183, 299–300; “The Snow Man,” 139–
40; “Sunday Morning,” 136–39, 259–60,
299–300
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 105
Stieglitz, Alfred, 155, 170
Stillness. See Motion vs. stillness
Stone.See Rocks
“Stones” (Kaufman), 275–76
“Stone Walls” (Hall), 323
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
(Frost), 125–26
Stravinsky, Igor, 33, 360
Suburbanization.See Development
Sumerian civilization, 19
“Sunday Morning” (Stevens), 136–39, 259–60,
299–300
“Sunflower Sutra” (Ginsberg), 273, 356
Swenson, May, 239–48, 282, 298, 329, 367; and
Bishop, 239, 241, 246, 248; “By Morning,”
242, 356; “The Centaur,” 240–41; “A Cou-
ple,” 245; “Digging in the Garden of Age
I Uncover a Live Root,” 245–46; “The
Exchange,” 248; “Four-Word Lines,” 246;
“How Everything Happens,” 242; influ-
ences on, 241–42, 244–45; “In the Bodies of
Words,” 246, 248; Nature, 246; “Snow by
Morning,” 242, 356; “Unconscious Came
a Beauty,” 242–44; “Waters,” 246, 248;