Research Catalog

Title

TumbleWords : writers reading the West / edited by William L. Fox ; foreword by Donald Meyer.

Publication

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fox, William L., 1949-
• Western States Arts Federation.

Description

xxv, 380 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• TumbleWords, an anthology of works by 72 western writers, is the result of a Western States Arts Federation project developed to bring writers and their audiences together in direct and unforgettable ways. From 1992 to 1994 poets, novelists, short-story writers, and essayists from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming gave readings and workshops in places where audiences have little, if any, access to contemporary writers.
• This anthology is a permanent record of the words spoken at those first TumbleWords readings.

Series Statement

Western literature series

Uniform Title

Western literature series.

Alternative Title

Tumble Words

Subjects

• West (U.S.) > Literary collections
• American literature > West (U.S.)

Note

• "TumbleWords ... was conceived as a community-based project that would bring writers to local venues to read their works for local audiences" -- P. [xiii].
• Developed by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) in 1991.
• Includes index.

Contents

• James Cervantes -- Temporary Meaning -- Signal Deaths / Jeanne Clark -- Joe Spinner -- The House Next Door -- Prison School -- Reckoning / William Clipman -- Perfect Time -- Winter of the Hawk / Dennis Hickman -- The Rez / Christopher McIlroy -- All My Relations / Rita Maria Magdaleno -- The Summer Dances -- Zapatos / Paul Morris -- Salome -- Learning Spanish -- A Resonance of Emerald: Hummers in the Desert / Jonathan Penner -- This Is My Voice / Jean Rukkila -- Risking the Reach / Dean Stover -- Bill of Sale / John Sullivan -- Jack Duluoz Hangs This Note on Maggie Cassidy's Fridge and Heads Out for Mexico / Lynne Weinberg-Hill -- Walker and Other Tribes / Chip Bissell -- In the Clearing / Ramon Del Castillo -- Violence in Los Barrios / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Ode a Las Gatas / Jack Collom -- Kit -- From "Truck Trip with Reed" / Abelardo Delgado -- El Barrio -- La Llorona / Margie Domingo -- La Mujer Azteca / Patricia Dubrava --
• After the Earthquake / Anthony J. Garcia -- The Day Ricardo Falcon Died / Rachel E. Harding -- splendour / Judith Jerome -- The Secret Life of School / Ricardo La Fore -- The Upwardly Mobile Professionals / Jeannie Madrid -- N-Words / Jacinta Taitano Martens -- From "clear mama" / Wardell Montgomery, Jr. -- Do I Have To Live Like This? / Jacqueline St. Joan -- Red on Her Fingers / Rick Ardinger -- Planting Day -- A Mountain Disappears in a Cloud While I Eat Beans for Lunch / Kim Barnes -- From In the Wilderness / William Johnson -- Ice Fishing on Lost Valley Resevoir / Leslie Leek -- Searching for Star / Ron McFarland -- At the Correctional Facility -- Out Here / Steven E. Puglisi -- What Were They Like? / Bob Schild -- The Long Ride / William Studebaker -- The Fall from Grace / Robert Wrigley -- Majestic / B. J. Buckley -- Night Fishing / David Cates -- Either a Miracle or a Fluke / Phil Condon -- Walt and Dixie / Peter Fong -- Asia Hotel --
• Noon Sun, East Bay / Pete Fromm -- The Coyotes' Dark Circle / Lowell Jaeger -- How This Very Rocking Chair You're Sitting in Came to Be / Ruth Rudner -- The Big Drive / Shaun T. Griffin -- Madonna in Traffic / Stephen Shu-Ning Liu -- Midnight Cries -- A Mid-July Invitation / Gailmarie Pahmeier -- Sometimes Our Gifts Are Small and Fast -- Telephone Call / Kirk Robertson -- Music / Gary Short -- Wovoka -- One Summer / Heather Ahtone -- Cry -- Two Eagles / Leon Autrey -- Young Banker / Jean Blackmort -- Rescue / Arsenio Cordova -- The Captives -- Raices / Larry Goodell -- Thatsapoem / Kendall McCook -- Comin' Home / Roberta Courtney Meyers -- Bone Dream / Terry Song -- In These Times -- In Bread We Trust / Karen Thibodeau -- Pash Rajah's Feather / Merry Adams -- Whiter Camp / Tom Austin -- Day of Days / Kate Boyes -- "I Hold with Those Who Favor Fire" / Ken Brewer -- The Importance of Missing the Mark / Marilyn Brown --
• On the Way Home with America / Katharine Coles -- Death Valley / David Lee -- The Landrum Geese -- Willie and the Water Pipe / Patricia McConnel -- Edna / Laurie Ann Ihm -- Tishnish - Spring Song / Rick Kempa -- The Wind / Page Lambert -- Home Fires / Vicki Linder -- Weather Report / John D. Nesbitt -- Keep the Wind in Your Face / Joan Puma -- Lost in Paradise / Jane Elkington Wohl -- The Heart of the Egg.

ISBN

0874172713 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95017115

OCLC

• 32394264
• ocm32394264

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries