Red Haws to Light the Field is wide-ranging in subject matter: love, eroticism, war, death, and the nature of poetic endeavour. Red Haws also contains poems inspired by or dedicated to the great masters and fellow poets: Li Po, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Czes?aw Mi?osz, Raymond Souster, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Gilbert, Jean Joubert, W.S. Merwin, Gerry Shikatani, Ted Plantos, Sam Hamill, Gerald Stern, Emily Dickinson, and Katherine L. Gordon