Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXVI No. 2 (Spring 2001)

*Nonfiction*

William S. Burroughs: South Texas Farmer, Junky, and Queer Rob Johnson	7

Blood Consciousness: Menstrual Taboos and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Stacey Peebles	37

“Some Improvident God”: Metaphysical Explorations in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy Kim McMurtry	45

Kafka's Mountain: Notes Passed During A Screening of All the Pretty Horses Raymond Todd	59

Nuggets of Truth in the Southwest: Artful Humor and Realistic Craft in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees Bob J. Frye	73


*Poetry*

On Sparrowhawk Mountain Don Stinson	86

Center of The Dream Lisa Garrigues	87

Eating Blackberry Pancakes Alan Britt	90

Alligator Territory Chip Dameron	90

Limits of Memory, Denver, Fall 1971 Carol Guerero-Murphy	91

Leaving the Cabin in May Walt McDonald	92

Barbed Wire before Pearl Harbor Walt McDonald	93

On the Lawn Christopher Brisson	94

Offerings to My Father David Tomson	95

Power Outage J. Morris	97

Mesquite Carver Larry Thomas	99

The Ball William Virgil Davis	100

Winter in Texas William Virgil Davis	100

Blue Norther Larry Thomas	101


*Reviews*

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863—1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose John Hill	105

Land of Enchantment, Land of Conflict: New Mexico in English-Language Fiction by David L. Caffey Bob J. Frye	107

Zuni and the American Imagination by Eliza McFeely Mark Busby	109

Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing by Stephanie L. Sarver Cory Lock	111

Elegy on the Death of César Chávez by Rudolfo Anaya Jane Manaster	112

Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879- 1934 by Margaret D. Jacobs Barbara J. Cook	113

Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels by Barcley Owens Ken Melichar	115

Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest by Jack L. August Albert Churella	117

Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California by Albert L. Hurtado James T. Carroll	119

Women and Nature: Saving the Wild West by Glenda Riley Jennifer Dawes	121

From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin. Clay Smith	122

Cherry: A Memoir by Mary Karr Clay Reynolds	123

Monuments by Clay Reynolds Charlotte Wright	128

Grace by Jane Roberts Wood Frances Neidhardt	131


Contributors	134

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