Southwestern American Literature

Volume XXXI No. 1 (Fall 2005)

Editors’ Page	v


*Nonfiction*

Writing on Hardscrabble: Walt McDonald’s “Suddenly Fabulous Desert” Michael Hobbs	9

Enrique Dick J. Reavis	25

Never Look a Gift Basket in the Eye: My Adventures Along the Literary Farm-to-Market Road Steve Davis	29


Fiction

Stacked Deck Jeannette Brown	39


*Poetry*

Perfectly Heartbroken Carol Hamilton	47

The Stars Larry D. Thomas	48

Falconer Larry D. Thomas	49

Remember the Farmers Forced into Factories Barry Ballard	50

Desert Farmer Jeffrey C. Alfier	51

Birth of an Archaeologist Colette Anderson Gill	52

Sounding Colette Anderson Gill	54

Neighbors Charles Behlen	55

Daily Curmudgeons at the Bear Dance Café Lee Voss	56


*Reviews*

Rio Grande edited by Jan Reid James Wright	59

Birding the Southwestern National Parks by Roland H. Wauer Jane Manaster	61

The Glen Canyon Reader edited by Mathew Barrett Gross Alex Hunt	62

One Ranger: A Memoir by H. Joaquin Jackson and David Marion Wilkinson Joseph McDade	64

Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres with Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr. Meagan Evans	66

A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service by Melody Webb Mary Jarvis	68

Walking It Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War and Wilderness by Doug Peacock David Cremean	69

Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law for Conservative Causes by Charles Tiefer Kevin Fernlund	71

And Not to Yield: A Novel of the Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok by Randy Lee Eickhoff John Hill	73

Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska, translated by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez Michael Allen	75

Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories by Stephen Graham Jones Amelia Gray	76

Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella by Tracy Daugherty Robert Murray Davis	78

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Mark Busby	79
David Cremean	82

So Quietly the Earth by David Lee Andrew Neuendorf	85

Tropical Green by Chip Dameron Nadine Cooper	87

A Thousand Miles of Stars by Walt McDonald Roger Jones	89


Contributors	91

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