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CELEBRATING TEXAS WRITERS:
Part 1
Eyes Upon Texas: The Editor’s Notes
pp. 1-4
Poetry
Lunar: A History: For Don on our fiftieth anniversary
pp. 10-11
The Curious Journey of Ulysses Paradeece After a Hurricane
pp. 93-96
Land Art in the Silk City
p. 209
Drunk the Night After the Eclipse: After Li Po
p. 229
From Tasting Every Horizon
p. 230
Homage to Lead
pp. 223-224
It is Most Fortunate that the Child is Tall Enough to Ride: A haiku
p. 228
Track 4: Reflection: As performed by Diana Ross
p. 71
Track 5: Summertime: As performed by Janis Joplin
p. 72
The Men in the Seersucker Suits
pp. 256-257
Wild Indigo, Because
p. 12
The White Iris Beautifies Me
pp. 13-14
From Blood, Sister
pp. 45-46
With a Bible and a Gun
pp. 205-206
Hiking at Burrito Canyon
p. 207
Vacationers at Amecameca
pp. 195-196
To Joan Mitchell
pp. 87-90
The Reason for All Things: (Lovers in love and over love)
p. 225
Zeno’s Tortoise: (In quietude, velocity sleeps)
pp. 226-227
Smoke Under the Bale
p. 110
Horse in the Dark
pp. 111-112
Still Life with Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood (East Texas, 198_)
p. 114
Wellfleet: i.m. John Slatin
pp. 233-234
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
p. 181
The Neptune Festival
pp. 182-183
Anything but Standard
p. 73
Home of the Brave
pp. 97-98
Black SUV: (after Vallejo)
p. 99
The Story of White People
p. 100
Life at the Arcade
p. 189
From Thought Clouds
pp. 42-44
The Apprenticeship of Jelly Roll Morton
pp. 259-260
From Mahoney’s Life: A Poetry Sequence
pp. 231-232
Yearning: A Ghazal
p. 137
Poems to be Sent on Postcards of the Desert
pp. 117-118
Widows at the Slot Machines
p. 119
Brodsky’s Overcoat
pp. 197-198
Blood on All Your Shirts
p. 199
My Father, On Dialysis
p. 200
A Cornfield in Cuba
pp. 217-218
Nom de Guerre: Upon Visiting the Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba
pp. 219-220
A Freight Train to Laredo
p. 128
Gerald Stern, 1992
p. 201
Why I Just Dropped the Nature Bouquet
p. 203
Dithyramb: Nocturnal
pp. 163-164
Douglass, a Last Letter
pp. 155-159
My Mother in Her Being—Photograph: ca. 1947
pp. 185-187
Shotguns, 1987: (after the painting by John Biggers)
p. 115
Dwelling on the Darkness
p. 116
The Literalist
pp. 253-254
Museum of Natural History #12, Bench Seating at the Atomic Test, 6/4/53
p. 74
Theories of Language
p. 75
Consider, T. H.
pp. 76-77
Still Life with Window and Chair
p. 221
After His Retirement, LBJ Visits Greenville
pp. 138-139
“The Strange Case of the Virgin Lidwina”: —first recorded case of multiple sclerosis, 1421
pp. 140-141
The Majesty of Sleep
p. 7
Drama
Without Tongue: 10 Minute Play
pp. 120-127
From Dividing the Estate
pp. 15-41
From The Man Who Saved New Orleans
pp. 241-252
Non-fiction Prose
Passing, a Home Front Memory
pp. 78-83
Las Milpas en Iowa
pp. 146-154
The Search for the Perfect Sidecar
pp. 102-109
How I Got a Tattoo
pp. 131-134
Family Photo #5: Bob
pp. 210-216
Filming My New Novel, Vexed; Rich and Poor Latinos
pp. 190-194
Away, Running: A Look at a Different Paris
pp. 47-56
Interviews
Interview with Franklin Sirmans
pp. 166-176
Interview with Valerie Cassel Oliver
pp. 57-64
An Interview with Alvia Wardlaw
pp. 261-276
Book Reviews
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative (review)
pp. 281-284
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (review)
pp. 285-287
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line (review)
pp. 288-290
A Kind of Friendship
pp. 291-293
Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica (review)
pp. 293-295
No Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dahs in Randall Horton’s The Definition of Place
pp. 296-300
The Architecture of Language (review)
pp. 300-303
Black Fire Reignited
pp. 303-307
Santeria: A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic, and: Santeria Stories (review)
pp. 307-313
The Regal Theater and Black Culture (review)
pp. 314-317
Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and the Supernatural in Twentieth Century African American Fiction, and: Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America (review)
pp. 318-322
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938 (review)
pp. 322-325
Contributors
Forthcoming Table of Contents/Celebrating Texas Writers: Part 2
pp. 335-336