Lynn Stegner, Russell Rowland

West of 98

Living and Writing the New American West
Herausgeber: Stegner, Lynn; Rowland, Russell

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Produktbeschreibung

The first collection of its kind in scope and ambition, this volume brings together the most prominent western writers of the current generation to create new visions of the American West--"the West that is still becoming"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780292726864
• ISBN-10: 0292726864
• Artikelnr.: 33725519

Autorenporträt

Lynn Stegner is the author of four works of fiction, three of them novels- Because a Fire Was in My Head (which won the Faulkner Award for Best Novel and was a Literary Ventures Selection, a Book Sense Pick, and a New York Times Editors' Choice), Undertow, and Fata Morgana-and the novella triptych Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (Faulkner Society Gold Medal in the novella category). Russell Rowland has published two novels: In Open Spaces, which earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and made the San Francisco Chronicle 's Bestseller List, and The Watershed Years, which was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction by Lynn Stegner
2. Louise Erdrich, Big Grass
3. Larry Woiwode, Wealth of the West
4. Larry Watson, Whose West? Which West? West of What?
5. Dan O'Brien, Viewed from Ground Level
6. Kent Meyers, Naked Time
7. Ron Hansen, Why the West?
8. Jonis Agee, The Fence
9. Antonya Nelson, Two or Three Places
10. Rick Bass, The Light at the Bottom of the Mind
11. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Points
12. Jim Barnes, Between the Sans Bois and the Kiamichi
13. Larry McMurtry, Excerpt from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
14. Susanna Sonnenberg, Slurry, Drainage, Frontage Road
15. Jim Harrison, Geopiety
16. River Sequence I-VII
17. Gary Ferguson, Wolf and Coyote and Kumbaya
18. Judy Blunt, What We Leave
19. Ed Kemmick, Reading Montana
20. Dan Aadland, Ranching in Suburbia
21. Russell Rowland, Chasing the Lamb
22. Annick Smith, The Summer of Now
23. John Clayton, The Native Home of Governors on Horseback
24. Willard Wyman, The Way Home
25. Melissa Kwasny, The Imaginary Book of Cave Paintings
26. Walter Kirn, Livingston Blows
27. William Kittredge, Where Should We Be?
28. Alyson Hagy, Self-Portrait as the Strong and Silent Type
29. Kenneth Lincoln, Blood West
30. Lee Ann Roripaugh, Motherlands and Mother Tongues: Five Reflections on
Language and Landscape
31. C. J. Box, Blame It on Rancho Deluxe
32. Teresa Jordan, The Conceit of Girls
33. Beth Loffreda, Pinus Contorta
34. Gretel Ehrlich, Where the Burn Meets the Dead
35. Stephen Graham Jones, Two Illustrations of the West, the first being
second-hand, the second first
36. Laura Pritchett, Cowboy Up, Cupcake? No Thanks
37. Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Fatal West
38. Page Lambert, A Shape-Shifting Land
39. Tom Miller, Moving West, Writing East
40. Gary Nabhan, Tasting a Sense of Place in the Arid West
41. Denise Chávez, Entre Mundos/Between Worlds
42. David Lee, Matins in the Cathedral of Wind
43. Kim Barnes, On Language: A Short Meditation
44. Ron Carlson, Utah Cabin Under Heaven, July 3
45. Debra Gwartney, Plucked from the Grave
46. Robert Wrigley, Two Poems
* Progress
* County
47. Stephen Trimble, Tumbling Toward the Sea
48. Terry Tempest Williams, Friendship
49. Amy Irvine, Red
50. Jim Hepworth, Growing Up Western
51. Charles Bowden, No Direction Home
52. Sally Denton, Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
53. Douglas Unger, City of Nomads, City of Second Chances
54. Ursula K. Le Guin, Places Names
55. John Daniel, East to the West
56. David Guterson, Three Poems
* Closed Mill
* Neighbors
* White Firs
57. Craig Lesley, Celilo Falls
58. Barry Lopez, A Dark Light in the West: Racism and Reconciliation
59. David Mas Masumoto, Dirty Stories
60. Gary Snyder, Two Poems: The Black-tailed Hare
61. Covers the Ground
62. Louis B. Jones, "It's Like They Tilted the Whole Country East-to-West. And
Everything that Wasn't Tied-Down Slid"
63. Peter Fish, Star Struck
64. Maxine Hong Kingston, Dias de los Muertos
65. Harold Gilliam, The San Francisco Psyche
66. Jane Hirshfield, Three Poems
* The Supple Deer
* Building and Earthquake
* The Dark Hour
67. Greg Sarris, Maria Evangeliste
68. Kris Saknussemm, Headed
69. Page Stegner, The Sense of No Place
70. Biographies