Spring 2009
Volume XXXIV No. 2 (Spring 2009)
| Editors’ Page: Literary Anodynes | v |
Nonfiction
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| The Cyborg Coyote: Generating Theory in the Borderlands Sara L. Spurgeon |
9 |
| Departure, Arrival, and Varieties of Silence: Narration and Dramaturgy in Horton Foote’s Beginnings and Farewell Robert W. Haynes |
29 |
| Brokeback Mountain in My Rear-View Mirror Don Graham |
45 |
Fiction
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| Cinéma Vérité John Blanchard |
55 |
Special Section: Southwestern Poetry
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| Guest Editor’s Introduction: Where Are We Now? Keith Ekiss |
63 |
| Mind Paces the Edge of a Flat World (And Thinks It’s Getting Somewhere) Leslie Ullman |
65 |
| Mind Telling What It Thinks Are Secrets Leslie Ullman |
66 |
| Saving Trees Josh Rathkamp |
67 |
| Wrong Sonnet Josh Rathkamp |
68 |
| Excerpts from “Flood Song” Sherwin Bitsui |
69 |
| Quiet Salt Sara Marie Ortiz |
72 |
| Mamie Chee’s Leg C. E. Perry |
73 |
| Family Wills Scott Wiggerman |
74 |
| Magdalene in the Desert Jennifer Elise Foerster |
76 |
| Cardinals, Sabino Canyon Simmons B. Buntin |
78 |
| The Coast Carrie Fountain |
80 |
| El Camino Real Carrie Fountain |
82 |
| The Village Alison Hawthorne Deming |
83 |
| Sestina Alison Hawthorne Deming |
84 |
| At the Robert Irwin Installation, West Texas Abraham Burickson |
86 |
| Howling Kenneth Fields |
88 |
| (I Want To Be A) Marxist Cowboy Jonathan Hunt |
92 |
Reviews
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen Joel Minor |
95 |
| World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights edited by Richard Griswold del Castillo Angela Thompson |
97 |
| Exodus/Éxodo words by Charles Bowden, photographs by Julián Cardona David Cremean |
99 |
| Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez by Kathleen Staudt James Wright |
101 |
| The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness by Harold Fromm Robert Murray Davis |
104 |
| Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature by Tom Lynch Robert Murray Davis |
106 |
| Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature by S. K. Robisch Tom Hertweck |
107 |
| Men without Bliss by Rigoberto González Jean Braithwaite |
110 |
| The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans: A Feast of Short Fiction by Carmen Tafolla Tammy Gonzales |
113 |
| Where Clouds Are Formed: Poems by Ofelia Zepeda Rita and Julia by Jimmy Santiago Baca Kenneth Hada |
115 |
| Contributors | 119 |