CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: FOOD

Sporting Food

Meals of Peace and Restoration

Hunger, Real and Unreal

Then and Now

Consciousness Dining

The Tugboats of Costa Rica

Midrange Road Kill

The Panic Hole

Piggies Come to Market

The Fast

What Have We Done with the Thighs?

PART II: TRAVEL & SPORT

A Plaster Trout in Worm Heaven

The Violators

Ice Fishing, the Moronic Sport

La Véncrie Françise

A Memoir of Horse Pulling

Bar Pool

Guiding Light in the Keys

Canada

Night Games

Okeechobee

A Day in May

A Sporting Life

The Last Good Country

The Preparation of Thomas Hearns

Bird Hunting

Log of the Earthtoy Drifthumper

Going Places

Don't Fence Me In

PART III: LITERARY MATTERS

A Natural History of Some Poems

Bending the Bow, by Robert Duncan

A Chat with a Novelist

The Nick Adams Stories, by Ernest Hemingway

Afterimages: Zen Poems, by Shinkichi Takahashi

The Dreadful Lemon Sky, by John D. MacDonald

The Snow Walker, by Farley Mowat

The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen

Fording and Dread

Passacaglia on Getting Lost

Revenge

Night Walking

From the Dalva Notebooks, 1985-1987

Everyday Life: The Question of Zen

Poetry as Survival

Paul Strand

Dream as a Metaphor of Survival

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