Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXVIII No. 1 (Fall 2002)

Editor's Pages	iv


Nonfiction

Hunting Down Eden: Larry McMurtry’s Search for his Spiritual Roots in his Recent Autobiographical Nonfiction Roger W. Jones	9

McCarthy’s Blood Matrix in the Border Trilogy Trenton Hickman	19

Pay-Per-View Scenery Ann Ronald	31


*Fiction*

The Best Laid Plans Jeff Spelman	43

The Wrench Susan Austin	53

Uprising Michael Mattes	65


*Poetry*

Voice of a Day Begun Again Carol Hamilton	81

A Treaty with the Eyes of ’55 Errol Miller	82

New Hope, Texas: Church Goers Robert Fink	85

How She Lost Her Mother Robert Fink	86

In Texas Jan Hanson	88


*Reviews*

Desert Ecology: An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest by John Sowell Dickie Maurice Heaberlin	91

Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty by William L. Fox Elizabeth White	92

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 by Roger A. Hall Mark Busby	94

Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War by John Mason Hart Benjamin Heber Johnson	96

Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams by Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff Barbara J. Cook	98

In Pursuit of the McCartys by Jon M. and Donna McDaniel Skovlin Dorys Crow Grover	100

The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 by Charles R. Cutter Jean A. Stuntz	101

Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 by Jim Bissett Benjamin Heber Johnson	103

Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film by J. Douglas Canfield John S. Hill	104

Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region by Audrey Goodman Kenneth W. Davis	106

Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound by Helen Moore Barthelme Jimmy McWilliams	107

The Multicultural Southwest: A Reader by A. Gabriel Meléndez, M. Jane Young, Patricia Moore, and Patrick Pynes Desirée Henderson	111

I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions by Louis Owens Emily Spiegelman	112

Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City by Laure-Anne Bosselaar Susan Hanson	115

Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 by Pattiann Rogers Courtney O’Banion	117

Quincie Boliver by Mary King Dickie Maurice Heaberlin	119

Ostrich by Michael A. Thomas Valarie Hall	120

Sofía’s Saints by Diana López Stacey Swann	122

July, July by Tim O’Brien Twister Marquiss	123


Contributors	127

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