My Emily Dickinson
by Susan Howe | 
Dream Work
by Mary Oliver |
Red Bird
by Mary Oliver |
The Way It Is
by William Stafford |
The Book of Images
by Rainer Maria Rilke |
The Poetry Home Repair Manual
by Ted Kooser | 
A Timbered Choir
by Wendell Berry |
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
by Hart Crane | 
Different Hours
by Stephen Dunn | 
Donkey Gospel
by Tony Hoagland |
Above the River
by James Wright |
Poems 1962-2012
by Louise Gluck | 
On the Pulse of Morning
by Maya Angelou | 
Buffalo Dance
by Frank X. Walker |
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
by Kenneth Rexroth | 
The Changing Light at Sandover
by James Merrill |
Seeing Things
by Seamus Heaney | 
Citizen Illegal
by Jose Olivarez |
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
by Ted Berrigan |
The Collected Poems of George Oppen
by George Oppen |
Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and several others, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of the "Beat" life. Poets on the Peaks is about the development of a community of poets, including the famous Six Gallery reading of October 1955, and contains unexpected cameos by fellow poets and mountain-climbers Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Lamantia, and Michael McClure. Poets on the Peaks is also a book about Dharma and the years of Dharma Bums -- from the 1951 roadside revelation in the Nevada desert that led Gary Snyder to drop out of academia and head for Japan, to Kerouac's lonely vigil with The Diamond Sutra on Desolation Peak, to Philip Whalen's ordination as a Zen priest. Finally, Poets on the Peaks is the story of the birth of a wilderness ethic, as well as a photographic homage to the Cascades landscape, a landscape virtually unchanged since these men journeyed there thanks to the environmental protections they helped inspire.