Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXI No. 1 (Fall 1995)

Editors' Page	v


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


*Fieldnotes*

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

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

Irregular Flight Kent Nelson	105

La Bahia Road Stephen Harrington	113

The Weighty Sword Jesse Wolf Hardin	119


Poetry

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

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

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