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Texas State Center for the Study of the Southwest Publications Southwestern American Literature Contents: Back Issues Fall 1995

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Volume XXI No. 1 (Fall 1995)

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Guest Editor's Introduction
Getting Over the Color Green: Southwestern Environmental Literature and the Westernization of the Senses Scott Slovic	7

Fieldnotes

Titles	Page Number
On the Rocks Florence R. Krall	17
Notes of a Nature Writer Edward Lueders	23
May 1994: LaPush, Washington, with Susan Ann Zwinger	25
Daybook: Bosque del Apache, New Mexico Terry Tempest Williams	35

Nonfiction

Titles	Page Number
Homecoming Terry Tempest Williams	47
A Nevada Treasure Ann Ronald	51
When the World Was Young Sharman Apt Russell	55
Of Talking Coyotes, One-legged Roadrunners, and Embarrassed Pelicans Richard Shelton	59
On Sending the Raft North Deidre Elliott	71
Of Pinacate Beetles and Beaches Ken Lamberton	81
Shadows of Twilight Joy Kennedy	89
Swerving in the Moonlight Paul W. Rea	93
Witness Lisa Gerber	95
"Why Write about Nature?" Susan Hanson	101

Fiction

Titles	Page Number
Irregular Flight Kent Nelson	105
La Bahia Road Stephen Harrington	113
The Weighty Sword Jesse Wolf Hardin	119

Poetry

Titles	Page Number
Invocation Likewise Karen Brennan	127
The Cures of Green And Night A Physics of Sudden Light Alberto Rios	132
Driving Through Nature The Rock Fig The Gulf Allison Deming	136
Talk Cheating Peter Wild	141
Light Watching Mountains Richard Shelton	143
At the McKenzie River, Oregon Sunday Walk, Richmond Naomi Shihab Nye	147
Moving West An Hour Alone at the Ponds Sarah Wolbach	150
The Crossing Going to the Creek Yuccas at 70 MPH Suzanne Freeman	154
Listening for the Nightjar in Aravaipa Canyon Snow Geese Wintering Anna Haviland	157

Critical Essays

Titles	Page Number
The Language of Landscape: On the Recent Poetry of Simon Ortiz Ray Gonzalez	161
The Inner Landscape of the Self in Jimmy Santiago Baca's Martin Matthias Schubnell	167
The Death and Lives of Mary Austin John P. O'Grady	175
Looking at the Desert Bighorn: The Gaze in Nature Writing Henry R. Harrington	187
Monkey Wrenching, Environmetal Extremism, and the Problematical Edward Abbey Daniel G. Payne	195
Rewriting a Geneology with the Earth: Women and Nature in the Works of Terry Tempest Williams Karla Armbruster	209
A Sometime Rusknite in the Wilderness: John C. Van Dyke's Desert Aesthetic David Teague	221
Contributors	226