Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Stories of Water	1
	Lunch in the Garden	11
	The Embrace of Names	14
	Square Places, Round Wholes	22
	Letters to an Architect	27
	The Stone Woman	39
	The Politics of Storytelling	41
	Hearing Silence	49
	The Failure of Literature	67
	Naming the New One	79
	The Newmark Warning	81
	Waxwing	89
	Thomas Kicking Woman	93
	Wounded Knee III	97
	Economic Nature	113
	Something About Mac, Cows, Poker, Ranchers, Cowboys, Sex, and Power . . . and Almost Nothing About American Lit	137
	The Art of the Possible in the Home of Hope	159
	Incense Cedar	181
	The Clan of One-breasted Women	183
	On Tumbleweeds and Dust	193
	Cuttings	203
	Aerial Reconnaissance	207
	Communique from the Vortex of Gravity Sports	219
	Ecocide	224
	Notes from the Squalor Zone	243
	Staircase	259
	Nesting in Air	262
	America Eats	265
	In Praise of Horses	279
	River Girls	283
	Blue Waltz with Coyotes	288
	Passion Pit	293
	Ringfinger	295
	Breaking Clean	297
	The Patriot and the Exiles	304
	Lessons in Silence	307
	Sharkey	319
	Poker Parley	321
	The Closing of Western Hardware	324
	Approaching August	331
	The Clearing in the Clearing	333
	The Other Side of Fire	353
	The Wind Rivers	372
	The Meadow at the Corner of Your Eye	389