In the Deep Heart's Core

by Clifford, Craig Edward

• ISBN13: 9781585440139
• ISBN10: 1585440132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-12-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

The subjects of Craig Clifford's ruminations range from Willie Nelson to Walter Prescott Webb, from German philosophers to an Irish immigrant out to save the American West, and in them Clifford voices the concerns of a new generation of Texans and other earthlings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: In a Narrow Grave, Revisited	p. 3
Horseman, Hang On: The Reality of Myth in Texas Letters	p. 11
Ecology and Old Farts	p. 23
Writers Who Ruminate and Writers Who Activate	p. 37
Rugged Individualism and Cowboy Presidents	p. 42
Seamus Heaney on the American West	p. 48
Texas, Southern or Western?	p. 57
Ethnic Terrains: Melting Pot, Pressure Cooker, or Tossed Salad?	p. 75
Play It Again, Willie	p. 95
Freeways and Highways: Growing Up on the Edge of Houston	p. 110
Earth and World in Lone Star Life and Letters	p. 119
Epilogue: Homecoming	p. 127
A Personal Bibliography	p. 141
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