Publications

This bibliography lists only paper publications. Since 1996 I have been the owner, manager, and sole contributor to my own web sites, which I have consolidated as Dancing Badger. For a sampling of essays at the site, check out the Dancing Badger portfolio.

Books

  1. The Illustrated VP-Info, Wordware Publishing, International (October 1987). Revised ed. June 1988.
  2. The Illustrated Turbo Prolog, Wordware Publishing, International (January 1989).

I have written two computer books, The Illustrated VP-Info (1987) and The Illustrated Turbo Prolog (1989), for Wordware Publishing International in Dallas, Texas. Each is a training book for beginners. VP-Info was a database product similar to dBASE III; Turbo Prolog was Borland's AI programming language (now marketed as PDC Visual Prolog). I have also published roughly two dozen scholarly, literary, and technical articles.

Articles, Essays, Reviews:

  1. "Incarnate Grace and the Paths of Salvation in House Made of Dawn," South Dakota Review (Winter 1974).
  2. "Cells from the Body of Silence: Michael McClure and American Indian Poetry," Margins (March 1975).
  3. "Be a Man, Be a Woman: Androgyny in House Made of Dawn," American Indian Quarterly (Spring 1975).
  4. "'O'Liester's Acrostic: Text and Notes,' by R. U. McHorner," North Dakota English (Fall 1975).
  5. "Meaning and Paradox in Jeffers' 'Return,'" The Robinson Jeffers Newsletter (August 1975). Reprinted in The Robinson Jeffers Newsletter: A Jubilee Gathering, 1962-1988 (Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1988).
  6. "The Ballantine Books Massacre," English Journal (October 1975).
  7. American Indian Literature, Department of Continuing Education, University of North Dakota, 1975 [text for correspondence course].
  8. "The Language of Shamans: Jerome Rothenberg's Contribution to American Indian Literature," Western American Literature (February 1976).
  9. "The Great Slinky Toy Meets the Linear-Minded Monster and the Issue Is Temporarily in Doubt," North Dakota English (Summer 1976).
  10. Interview with Jamake Highwater, Denver Post Roundup (January 8, 1978).
  11. Interview with Frederick Manfred, Denver Post Roundup (March 19, 1978).
  12. "The Topology of Remembrance in The Way to Rainy Mountain," Denver Quarterly (Winter 1978).
  13. "Indian Summer," Denver Magazine (May 1978).
  14. "You Can't Go Home: Jeremiah Johnson and the Wilderness," Western American Literature (May 1978).
  15. Interview with Michael McClure, The Beat Journey [special issue of the unspeakable visions of the individual, Vol. 8 (1978)].
  16. "The Chamber of the Godgame," The Dragon (September 1978).
  17. "War Is Swell," Denver Magazine (December 1978).
  18. "The Color of Meat, the Color of Bone: The Man Who Killed the Deer as 'Another Book about Indians,'" Denver Quarterly (Winter 1979).
  19. "The Discriminating Collector," Utah Holiday (November 1981).
  20. "The First Covenant in Conquering Horse," South Dakota Review (Winter 1982).
  21. "Wolf That I Am: Animal Symbology in Lord Grizzly and Scarlet Plume," Western American Literature (May 1983).
  22. "Revision and the Word-Processing Computer," CCTE Proceedings, XLIX (September 1984).
  23. "Foreword," Bison Books reprint of Frederick Manfred's The Manly-Hearted Woman (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 1985).
  24. "Choosing and Using a Computerized Dictionary," CCTE Proceedings, L (September 1985).
  25. "Foreword," Prime Fathers, Essays by Frederick Manfred (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1987).
  26. "Learn This Is Home: The American Indian Author's Frontier," in The Myth of the Frontier, edited by David Mogen, Mark Busby, and Paul R. Bryant (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1989).
  27. "Vardis Fisher," Utah History Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994).
  28. "Embracing the Other: The Beloved Alien and Other Ethical Fictions of Orson Scott Card," Proceedings of the Association for Mormon Letters, I (Spring, 1994).
  29. "Children Made of Words," Stagebill (The Kennedy Center, March 1997)
  30. "American Indian Autobiography," Updating the Literary West (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1997)
  31. "Translation Memories — Smoke? or Mirrors?" LISA Newsletter (LISA, Fall, 1999)
  32. "Father to the Man: An Apology for Fisher's Indians," in Rediscovering Vardis Fisher: Centennial Essays, edited by Joseph M. Flora (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 2000).
[Additional essays can be found at Dancing Badger.]

Fiction and Poetry:

  1. "The Canyon Is Our Mother," Canyon Voices (National Park Service, 1982).
  2. "A Song of Xipe Totec," Denver Quarterly (Winter 1982).
  3. "Hermano," The Redneck Review of Literature  (Fall 1994).
[Additional poetry and fiction can be found at Dancing Badger.]

Reviews:

Between 1977 and 1981, I wrote 50-60 reviews for the Denver Post. I have also reviewed for the Grand Forks Herald, Western American Literature, Denver Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Utah Holiday, Sunstone Review, The Redneck Review and ALPNET Review. In 2000-2001, I was an Amazon Top 100 reviewer.

[More current reviews can be found at Dancing Badger.]

Editorial Work:

  1. "Fifty-five Biographies of Indians in Medicine," for University of North Dakota's INMED program, 1976.
  2. Furioso, by William Temple Davis (Englewood, CO: Dimension Six, Inc.,1980).
  3. The Nine Doctrines of Darkness Part II, by Randy Frazier (Englewood, CO: Dimension Six, Inc., 1981).
  4. The History of the Salt Lake City Post Office, 1849- 1869, by Les Whal [for the author] (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1985).
  5. The History of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1983).
  6. Wheels to Adventure, by William Rishel (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1984).
  7. A Sender of Words: Essays on John G. Neihardt, ed. by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1984).
  8. To Chain the Dog of War: The War-Making Power of Congress in History and Law, by Francis Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage [for Professor Firmage, 1983] (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1986).
  9. Advanced Programming Techniques with Turbo Pascal, by Tunik et al. (Dallas: Wordware International, 1988).
[In my various technical writing and management jobs, I have written, edited, and managed production of a huge volume of corporate documents, ranging from APIs to RFPs. For a sample of my technical writing, look at my Poser 4 tutorials.]