Robert Baker is Professor of English at the University of Montana.

• ContentsWorks by Forrest Gander: viiAcknowledgments: ixIntroduction: 1On the Poetry:1. Forrest Gander in Geologic Time: 72. Forrest Gander’s Phenomenology of Encounter: 183. “Past Mere Propinquity”: Intimacy and Ethics in Eye Against Eye: 334. Questions of Travel: 395. Forrest Gander’s Grief Sounds: 486. Being With Forrest Gander’s Be With: 527. Forrest Gander: From Loss to Symbiosis: 638. Twice Alive: Lessons in Intimacy: 799. Post-Apocalyptic Entanglements in Forrest Gander ’s Twice Alive: 9010. Becoming Undone: On Forrest Gander’s Knot: 11311. Intimate Duration: On Forrest Gander’s Mojave Ghost: 12112. Walking the Fault Line: 13013. The Thickness of Being: A Conversation between Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander: 141On the Fiction:14. A Death in Full: 15515. Everything Particular Is Irreplaceable: Forrest Gander and the Ethics of the Trace: 158On the Translations:16. Homage to Translation: Forrest Gander: 17317. “Elemental Mind Salt”: Forrest Gander, Alfonso D’Aquino, and the Ideal of Artistic Co-Presence: 18118. “Who Was E ver Onl y Themselves?”: Cross-Border Ecologies of Translation: 20119. An Interview with Forrest Gander by Henry Ace Knight: 216Contributors: 227

“Forrest Gander: Poetry, Translation, Ecology, edited by Robert Baker, is a spectacular celebratory event. It is profoundly expansive, intended at once to both unravel and reveal the immense complexities of Forrest Gander’s poetic strata. These fascinating contributions by scholars, translators, and poets, generously shed light on the intensity, vulnerability, and acute porosity of Gander’s singular creative acts. Gander’s work offers us the possibility of living inside his text in a way that defies eco-hierarchy. As the South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon notes about her own poetry: ‘Inside my text, I make the grave of poetry live like a real grave. I make the grave that tastes like milk as birth and death. The place where melons ripen.’ Gander’s great art also lies ‘where melons ripen.’”

Robert Baker is Professor of English at the University of Montana.

• ContentsWorks by Forrest Gander: viiAcknowledgments: ixIntroduction: 1On the Poetry:1. Forrest Gander in Geologic Time: 72. Forrest Gander’s Phenomenology of Encounter: 183. “Past Mere Propinquity”: Intimacy and Ethics in Eye Against Eye: 334. Questions of Travel: 395. Forrest Gander’s Grief Sounds: 486. Being With Forrest Gander’s Be With: 527. Forrest Gander: From Loss to Symbiosis: 638. Twice Alive: Lessons in Intimacy: 799. Post-Apocalyptic Entanglements in Forrest Gander ’s Twice Alive: 9010. Becoming Undone: On Forrest Gander’s Knot: 11311. Intimate Duration: On Forrest Gander’s Mojave Ghost: 12112. Walking the Fault Line: 13013. The Thickness of Being: A Conversation between Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander: 141On the Fiction:14. A Death in Full: 15515. Everything Particular Is Irreplaceable: Forrest Gander and the Ethics of the Trace: 158On the Translations:16. Homage to Translation: Forrest Gander: 17317. “Elemental Mind Salt”: Forrest Gander, Alfonso D’Aquino, and the Ideal of Artistic Co-Presence: 18118. “Who Was E ver Onl y Themselves?”: Cross-Border Ecologies of Translation: 20119. An Interview with Forrest Gander by Henry Ace Knight: 216Contributors: 227

“Forrest Gander: Poetry, Translation, Ecology, edited by Robert Baker, is a spectacular celebratory event. It is profoundly expansive, intended at once to both unravel and reveal the immense complexities of Forrest Gander’s poetic strata. These fascinating contributions by scholars, translators, and poets, generously shed light on the intensity, vulnerability, and acute porosity of Gander’s singular creative acts. Gander’s work offers us the possibility of living inside his text in a way that defies eco-hierarchy. As the South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon notes about her own poetry: ‘Inside my text, I make the grave of poetry live like a real grave. I make the grave that tastes like milk as birth and death. The place where melons ripen.’ Gander’s great art also lies ‘where melons ripen.’”

Robert Baker is Professor of English at the University of Montana.

• ContentsWorks by Forrest Gander: viiAcknowledgments: ixIntroduction: 1On the Poetry:1. Forrest Gander in Geologic Time: 72. Forrest Gander’s Phenomenology of Encounter: 183. “Past Mere Propinquity”: Intimacy and Ethics in Eye Against Eye: 334. Questions of Travel: 395. Forrest Gander’s Grief Sounds: 486. Being With Forrest Gander’s Be With: 527. Forrest Gander: From Loss to Symbiosis: 638. Twice Alive: Lessons in Intimacy: 799. Post-Apocalyptic Entanglements in Forrest Gander ’s Twice Alive: 9010. Becoming Undone: On Forrest Gander’s Knot: 11311. Intimate Duration: On Forrest Gander’s Mojave Ghost: 12112. Walking the Fault Line: 13013. The Thickness of Being: A Conversation between Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander: 141On the Fiction:14. A Death in Full: 15515. Everything Particular Is Irreplaceable: Forrest Gander and the Ethics of the Trace: 158On the Translations:16. Homage to Translation: Forrest Gander: 17317. “Elemental Mind Salt”: Forrest Gander, Alfonso D’Aquino, and the Ideal of Artistic Co-Presence: 18118. “Who Was E ver Onl y Themselves?”: Cross-Border Ecologies of Translation: 20119. An Interview with Forrest Gander by Henry Ace Knight: 216Contributors: 227

“Forrest Gander: Poetry, Translation, Ecology, edited by Robert Baker, is a spectacular celebratory event. It is profoundly expansive, intended at once to both unravel and reveal the immense complexities of Forrest Gander’s poetic strata. These fascinating contributions by scholars, translators, and poets, generously shed light on the intensity, vulnerability, and acute porosity of Gander’s singular creative acts. Gander’s work offers us the possibility of living inside his text in a way that defies eco-hierarchy. As the South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon notes about her own poetry: ‘Inside my text, I make the grave of poetry live like a real grave. I make the grave that tastes like milk as birth and death. The place where melons ripen.’ Gander’s great art also lies ‘where melons ripen.’”