Turtle Island Gary Snyder

Contents

Turtle Island is split into four sections. The first three—Manzanita, Magpie's Song, and For the Children—include a total of almost 60 poems, while the fourth section, Plain Talk, includes five prose essays. The collection includes many of Snyder's most commonly quoted and anthologized poems. There is also an introduction, in which Snyder explains the significance of the book's title.[10]

Section title Contents
Manzanita
  • "Anasazi"
  • "The Way West, Underground"
  • "The Dead by the Side of the Road"
  • "I Went into the Maverick Bar"
  • "Steak"
  • "No Matter, Never Mind"
  • "The Bath"
  • "Coyote Valley Spring"
  • "Spel Against Demons"
  • "Front Lines"
  • "Control Burn"
  • "The Great Mother"
  • "The Call of the Wild"
  • "Prayer for the Great Family"
  • "Source"
  • "Manzanita"
  • "Charms"
Magpie's Song
  • "Facts"
  • "The Real Work"
  • "Pine Tree Tops"
  • "For Nothing"
  • "Night Herons"
  • "The Egg"
  • "The Uses of Light"
  • "On San Gabriel Ridges"
  • "By Frazier Creek Falls"
  • "Black Mesa Mine #1"
  • "Up Branches of Duck River"
  • "It Pleases"
  • "Hemp"
  • "The Wild Mushroom"
  • "Mother Earth: Her Whales"
  • "Affluence"
  • "Ethnobotany"
  • "Straight Creek—Great Burn"
  • "The Hudsonian Curlew"
  • "Two Fawns That Didn't See the Light This Spring"
  • "Two Immortals"
  • "Rain in Alleghany"
  • "Avocado"
  • "What Steps"
  • "Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen"
  • "Bedrock"
  • "The Dazzle"
  • "'One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter About What is Forbidden by the Buddha'"
  • "L M F B R"
  • "Walking Home from 'The Duchess of Malfi'"
  • "Magpie's Song"
For the Children
  • "O Waters"
  • "Gen"
  • "Dusty Braces"
  • "The Jemez Pueblo Rising"
  • "Tomorrow's Song"
  • "What Happened Here Before"
  • "Toward Climax"
  • "For the Children"
  • "As for Poets"
Plain Talk
  • "Four Changes"
  • "'Energy is Eternal Delight'"
  • "The Wilderness"
  • "What's Meant by 'Here'"
  • "On 'As for Poets'"

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