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Donny Does E-Mail. Serialized in Amarillo Bay, 1999. 46 poems, 100 pages. May take a couple of minutes to load. |
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Watermelon Mountain / Cold Mountain (click to read 3
poems). Calcutta: Writers Workshop Press, 1984. |
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Indians (click to read 4 poems). Stafford, Virginia: Northwoods Press, 1980. |
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Messages From a Typewriter (click to see 12 visual poems). Lawrence, Kansas: Lantana Press, 1980. |
| Short Stories: | |
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"Avantara Mantra," Short Story International, 78 (1990): 463-80. |
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"Moksha," Short Story International, 57 (1986): 75-86. |
| First Person Essay: | |
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"God with an Elephant Head: Pilgrimage to India." Prairie Schooner, 62.3 (1988, University of Nebraska): 92-103. |
Postcolonialism:
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"Zen Comedy in Postcolonial Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day", Mosaic 29.1 (1996, University of Manitoba): 79-102. |
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"Confucianism in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 24.1 (1989, England): 49-64. |
Postmodernism:
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"Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi," Southern
Humanities Review, 29.1 (1995, Auburn University): 15-48. This essay received the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award as the best essay published by Southern Humanities Review in 1995. |
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"Memoirs Found in a Bathtub: Stanislaw Lem's Critique of Cybernetics," Mosaic, 17.4 (1984, University of Manitoba): 53-71. |
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"The Ghost in the Machine: Stanislaw Lem's Mortal Engines," Liberal & Fine Arts Review 4.1 (1984, Eastern New Mexico University): 1-18. |
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"Kybernetik und Humanistische Literatur: Stanislaw Lems Kyberiande" in Über Stanislaw Lem ed. Werner Berthel. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Uerklag, 1981: 75-91. |
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"Having Everything is Having Nothing: Stanislaw Lem Versus Utilitarianism," Southwest Review, 66.3 (1981, Southern Methodist University): 293-306. |
| Editing: | |
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"Cover Letters: What They Do Write to an Editor," Coda (Poet & Writers). |
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