Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Don’t Cry for Me, Itta Bena
2. The Strangely Familiar World of Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair
3. Sugar amongst the Chickens
4. Redbird
5. Lewis Nordan and One Critic: The Archer or the Arrow Catcher?
6. Transcendence and Hope in the Blues Life and Life Writing of Lewis Nordan
7. Life as a Set of Games and Invented Stories in Lewis Nordan’s Fictional Memoir
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Guns and Love in Lewis Nordan’s Work
9. The “Idea of Order” in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi: Scapegoating and Redemption in The Sharpshooter Blues
10. Faulkner’s Ghost in Lewis Nordan’s 'The Sharpshooter Blues'
11. Lewis Nordan’s Southern Magic
12. Lewis (Buddy) Nordan: Poet of Prose
13. Eulogizing Space: Eudora Welty’s “Still Moments” and Gaston Bachelard’s “Dream Geometry” in Lewis Nordan’s Fiction
14. Music of the Swamp
15. Wonderful Geographies
16. The Nordan Shakespeare
17. An Interview with Lewis Nordan: 'Bookmark' (1998)
18. “The Day When the Swamp Elves Ran out of the Canebrake” : A Conversation with Lewis Nordan (2006)
19. Buddy on the Plains: An Interview (2009)
Works Cited
Contributors
Index