Editor-in-Chief   Willard Spiegelman

Managing Editor   Jennifer Cranfill

Assistant to the Managing Editor
and Production Associate   Terri Lewers

Student Assistant   Trevor Brock

Advisory Board

    W. S. Di Piero / Stanford University

     Ben Fountain / Dallas

     Don Graham / University of Texas at Austin

     Elizabeth Hadas / University of New Mexico Press

     Rolando Hinojosa / University of Texas at Austin

     John Hollander / Yale University

     Ben Ryder Howe / New York

     Nicolas Kanellos / Arte Publico Press

     Mary Kinzie / Northwestern University

     Wendy Lesser / The Threepenny Review

     Joyce Carol Oates / Princeton, New Jersey

     Alice Quinn / The New Yorker

     Helen Vendler / Harvard University

     David J. Weber / Southern Methodist University

Editors Emeriti   Allen Maxwell, Charlotte T. Whaley, Elizabeth Mills

Designer   Joanna Hill

Compositor   Vicki Trego Hill, Trego-Hill Publications

The Southwest Review (ISSN 0038-4712) is published quarterly at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275 by Southern Methodist University. All rights reserved. SWR is indexed and abstracted in Humanities Index, American Humanities Index, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, MLS International Bibliography, Book Review Index, An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, Index of American Periodical Verse, Poem Finder, and Abstracts of Popular Culture. The Southwest Review is available on microfilm and microfiche from ProQuest and as a CD-ROM full text product from IAC, ProQuest, EBSCO, and the Humanities Index. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher.

The Southwest Review is a non-profit organization and is supported in 2008 by the generous donations of friends of SWR, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.