West of 98 : : living and writing the new American West / / edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland ; with an introduction by Lynn Stegner.

• TeilnehmendeR: Stegner, Lynn,; Rowland, Russell,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 pages)

Table of Contents

Big grass / Louise Erdrich -- Wealth of the west / Larry Woiwode -- Whose west? Which west? West of what? / Larry Watson -- Viewed from ground level / Dan O'Brien -- Naked time / Kent Meyers -- Why the west? / Ron Hansen -- The fence / Jonis Agee -- Or three places / Antonya Nelson -- The light at the bottom of the mind / Rick Bass -- Points / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke -- Between the Sans Bois and the Kiamichi / Jim Barnes -- Excerpt from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry -- Slurry, drainage, frontage road / Susanna Sonnenberg -- Geopiety ; River sequence I/VII / Jim Harrison -- Wolf and coyote and kumbaya / Gary Ferguson -- What we leave / Judy Blunt -- Reading Montana / Ed Kemmick -- Ranching in suburbia / Dan Aadland -- Chasing the lamb / Russell Rowland -- The summer of now / Annick Smith -- The native home of governors on horseback / John Clayton -- The way home / Willard Wyman -- The imaginary book of cave paintings / Melissa Kwasny -- Livingston blows / Walter Kirn -- Where should we be? / William Kittredge -- Self-portrait as the strong and silent type / Alyson Hagy -- Blood west / Kenneth Lincoln -- Motherlands and mother tongues : five reflections on language and landscape / Lee Ann Roripaugh -- Blame it on Rancho Deluxe / C. J. Box -- The conceit of girls / Teresa Jordan -- Pinus contorta / Beth Loffreda -- Where the burn meets the dead / Gretel Ehrlich -- Illustrations of the west : the first being second-hand, the second first / Stephen Graham Jones -- Cowboy up, cupcake? No thanks / Laura Pritchett -- The fatal west / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- A shape-shifting land / Page Lambert -- Moving west, writing east / Tom Miller -- Tasting a sense of place in the arid west / Gary Nabhan -- Entre mundos/Between worlds / Denise Chavez -- Matins in the cathedral of wind / David Lee -- On language : a short meditation / Kim Barnes -- Utah cabin under heaven, July 3 / Ron Carlson -- Plucked from the grave / Debra Gwartney -- Two poems / Robert Wrigley -- Tumbling toward the sea / Stephen Trimble -- Friendship / Stephen Trimble -- Red / Amy Irvine -- Growing up western / Jim Hepworth -- No direction home / Charles Bowden -- Beyond this place there be dragons / Sally Denton -- City of nomads, city of second chances / Douglas Unger -- Places names / Ursula K. Le Guin -- East to the west / John Daniel -- Three poems / David Guterson -- Celilo Falls / Craig Lesley -- A dark light in the west : racism and reconciliation / Barry Lopez -- Dirty stories / David Mas Masumoto -- Two poems / Gary Snyder -- "It's like they tilted the whole country east-to-west and everything that wasn't tied-down slid" / Louis B. Jones -- Star struck / Peter Fish -- Dias de los muertos / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The San Francisco psyche / Harold Gilliam -- Three poems / Jane Hirshfield -- Maria Evangeliste / Greg Sarris -- Headed / Kris Saknussemm -- The sense of no place / Page Stegner.