Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXIX No. 2 (Spring 2004)

Editors' Page: Sounds Heard and Unheard	v


*Nonfiction*

Westward Ho! (Chi Minh): Tim O'Brien and the Wounding of the American Cowboy Mythos Twister Marquiss	9

Route 66, John Steinbeck, and American Literature: An Interview with Louis Owens David Dunaway	17

From the Earth Itself: The Yearning Voices of The House of Breath Eve La Salle Caram	31

Two by Paul Ruffin Paul Ruffin	37

Invisible Birds: Domestic Erasure in Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge Sarah E. McFarland	45


Fiction

Looking for Maurina Randy Michael Signor	55


*Poetry*

Introduction to the Ocotillo Keith Ekiss	67

Again Carol Hamilton	68

One Hand on the Light Skip Eisiminger	69

Waiting Terence Ryan	70

Geraldine's Still-Life Period John Grey	71


*Reviews*

The Angquish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife in the West, Vol. 2) by Barre Toelken, edited by William A. Wilson Alex Hunt	75

The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Nathan Altman	77

The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen Martin Jacobsen	79

The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest edited by Hal K. Rothman Ken Melichar	81

Willa Cather and the American Southwest edited by John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo John S. Hill	85

Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in an Age of Extinction by SueEllen Campbell Rebekah Love	87

La Mordida by Jim Sanderson Bill Cunningham	90

Bittersweet Christmas by L. D. Clark Lou Rodenberger	91

Writing the Southwest (Revised Edition) edited by David King Dunaway and Sara Spurgeon Mark Busby	93

Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader edited by Tom Miller James Spears	95

By Sorrow's River: The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry Mark Busby	97

Folly and Glory: The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry Clay Reynolds	99


Contributors	104

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