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I have been teaching Southwestern American Literature since 1972. I plan to use this webpage to provide some of my thoughts about the area of study. I will first put on line some of the papers, book reviews, and articles I have written. Then I will provide new material to the site as I have time.

I will not provide as precise a definition of the Southwest as I did the South Central. But I will have the eastern boundary at approximately IH35 and IH37.

 

Streams Through the Southwest This is an essay, with poems, that I published in Southwestern American Literature, Spring, 1991, when Jim Harris was still editing the publication in Hobbs.

Home of Dick Heaberlin Writes

Orange House Books

A Cavalcade of Oilfield Novels
Fountain Wells

My Writing Guides

English Syntax:
A Guide to the Grammar of Successful Writers—
Writing Style 1

Connecting for Coherence:
A Guide to Building Sentences With Syntax And Logic—
Writing Style 2

Purposeful Punctuation:
A Syntactic Guide to English Punctuation—
Writing Style 3

Word Wisdom:
A Guide to Selecting Words
for Writers and Editors—Writing Style 4

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