Kenneth Lincoln

If you want to orient yourself in McCarthy I don't think you could do better than this. It covers nearly all of his work in essays that are short, but cover both the content and talks about the themes and analysis on the stories. If you want to do a deep dive on any one particular book, this won't do it with such limited space for each title (a scant 11 to deal with Blood Meridian for instance). However, it's also an extremely readable overview, which deeper academic work often is not (I've show more read a few of these now).
The selected criticism reference is useful for deeper research as well. show less

In 1975, Lincoln and four of his students take a summer road trip from Los Angeles through Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, to the Dakotas - - home of his youth. They search for understanding and meaning in contemporary Indian life; identifying the continuing struggles and tensions between Indians and whites. The book is also a journal of self-discovery for Kenneth Logan and his students; one of them Al Logan Slagle, a Cherokee. (lj)

historic and contemporary poetry