Reflection in friends (includes methods)
Banjo eyes, (Whalen & Ginsberg)
Buddha red ears (Whalen & Kerouac)
Kalyanamitra (Whalen & Snyder)
Your heart is fine (Whalen & Kyger)
Hail thee who play (Whalen & Mcclure)
Early (childhood, family, through high-school)
Forced association
Reed's fine college (Whalen & Welch; Whalen and Lloyd Reynolds)
Portage Solvitur Ambulando (1959-1971-includes publication of his first books)
Japan, Bolinas, Japan, Bolinas (1959-1971)
New years (Whalen & Richard Baker, first phase at Zen Center, including Tassajara)
An order to love (ordination, second phase at Zen Center & Tassajara, head monk at Tassajara, South Ridge Zendo)
Rope of sand (Philip at Santa Fe with Baker, et al; Dharma Transmission)
RSVP (Philip at Hartford St.; Decline & death; includes a little postscript)
Crowded by beauty : the life and Zen of poet Philip Whalen by David Schneider. ISBN 9780520247468. Published by University of California Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.