Crunching gravel : a Wisconsin boyhood in the thirties

A North Coast book

North Coast book.

Crunching gravel : growing up in the thirties

The Clam Lake papers : a winter in the North Woods : introducing the metaphorical imperative and kindred matters : with a prologue and epilogue

After the fire : a writer finds his place

Acknowledgments -- Prologue : finding home -- Strangers in friendly places -- Trees -- Sky -- Poetry -- Neighbors -- Birds -- Making poetry -- Library -- Insects and arachnids -- Grasses, fruits, plants -- Gardening -- Coyotes, foxes, wolves -- Taking a punch -- Deer -- The hunt -- The blind world -- Trouble -- Dogs -- Old jazz -- Young jazz -- Winter -- The condition of my faith -- Spring -- Summer -- The catcher -- Dairy days -- Autumn.

After the fire : a writer finds his place

Acknowledgments -- Prologue : finding home -- Strangers in friendly places -- Trees -- Sky -- Poetry -- Neighbors -- Birds -- Making poetry -- Library -- Insects and arachnids -- Grasses, fruits, plants -- Gardening -- Coyotes, foxes, wolves -- Taking a punch -- Deer -- The hunt -- The blind world -- Trouble -- Dogs -- Old jazz -- Young jazz -- Winter -- The condition of my faith -- Spring -- Summer -- The catcher -- Dairy days -- Autumn.