Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXX No. 1 (Fall 2004)

Editors’ Page	v


*Nonfiction*
Willa Cather’s “River of Silver Sound”: Woman as Ecosystem in The Song of the Lark Matthew Wynn Sivils	9

Language and the Dance of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian John Rothfork	23

That Truth Beyond Particulars: Silence in Rilla Askew’s The Mercy Seat Kenneth Hada	37


*Fiction*
Horses Jim Meirose	57


*Poetry*
Barbed Wire Larry D. Thomas	69

Stampede Larry D. Thomas	70

Western Artist Larry D. Thomas	71

Rob in the Morning Jean Howard	72

Falsetto Sky Joey Nicoletti	73

Balloons Over the Sandias Joey Nicoletti	74

At the Trinity Site Joey Nicoletti	75

Whirlwinds Carol Hamilton	76


*Reviews*
Eldorado: The California Gold Rush by Dale L. Walker Jean A. Stuntz	83

Maria Chabot-Georgia O’Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949 edited by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden Julia Drescher	84

Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 by Gilbert G. González James Wright	86

El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Mark Cameron Edberg James Wright	89

Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS by Lisa Magaña Angelica Grado-Wright and James Wright	92

Sam Peckinpah’s West: New Perspectives edited by Leonard Engel Ken Melichar	95

A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands by Beatriz de la Garza Bob J. Frye	99

College Rodeo: From Show to Sport by Sylvia Gann Mahoney Jane Manaster	101

Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work edited by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick Emily Spiegelman	103

Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World by Susan Hanson Dickie Maurice Heaberlin	105

Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico by Alice Corbin edited by Lois Rudnick and Ellen Zieselman Robert A. Ayres	107

The Keepsake Storm by Gina Franco Dave Oliphant	110

In the Shadow of the Strip: Las Vegas Stories edited by Tina D. Eliopulos, Richard Logsdon, and Todd Moffet Sarah Faulkner	115

El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border by Richard Yañez Joseph McDade	117

Shambles: A Novel by Debra Monroe Gabrielle Snyder	119

Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond by Steven L. Davis Chad Hammett	121


Contributors	123

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