Fall 1995
Volume XXI No. 1 (Fall 1995)
| Editors' Page | iv |
| 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 |
