Robert S. Nelsen


PUBLICATIONS

SHORT FICTION:

 
  "A Mother's Kiss," Southwest Review, Vol. 89-1, 2004, pp. 130-145

"Spirits Colliding," Descant, Spring 2000, pp. 100-103

"Coz Duzego" in the Polish Translation of Fiction of the Eighties (Lublin, Poland: 1996)

  "The Sun, The Moon, The Star," Southwest Review, Autumn 1996, pp. 538-544
  "Miles away from Home," TriQuarterly 92, Winter 1995, pp. 211-219
  "They Fly Up and Drop," Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1994, pp. 92-100
  "The Old Dreams," Common Knowledge, Winter 1993, pp. 147-150
  "We Bums Are Not Homeless," Chariton Review, Fall 1993, pp. 68-74
  "Everybody Needs a Fine Dancer," Southwest Review, Winter 1992, pp. 61-71
  "Something Big," Fiction of the Eighties, Reginald Gibbons, ed., (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1990), pp. 474-479 (anthology of stories published in the 1980's)
  "Angel and Me," The Baffler 2, Summer 1990, pp. 35-42
  "Ronnie Big Wolf Tooth," The North Dakota Quarterly 57, Fall 1989, pp. 93-112
  "The Story of a Mighty and Ferocious Warrior," Other Voices 10, Spring 1989, pp. 40-47
  "Two Points of a Blue Star," Quarterly West 28, Winter 1989, pp. 5-12
  "Mala Bruja," StoryQuarterly 25, Fall 1988, pp. 9-12
  "Something Big," TriQuarterly 71, Winter 1988, pp. 46-51
 

PLAY:

"We Bums," produced by Extra Virgin Performance Cooperative, Deep Ellum Theater, Dallas, TX, January 5-28, 1995

ESSAYS:

 
  "B on Time," TACT Quarterly E-Bulletin, Vol. LVI, No. 1, September, 2003

"Odilon Redon: Femme a la Toque," "Ben Nicholson: White Relief," "Ferdinand Leger: Composition," and "Jean Arp: Classical Sculpture," European Masterworks' Exhibition, (Dallas. TX, Dallas Museum of Art, January, 2002)

"Introduction," The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (Forest Hills, NY:  Ironweed Press, 1999), pp. 11-14

"Divoký skeptik, oddaný filosofováni," ["Paul Feyerabend 1924-1994; A Retrospective"], Nova Pritomnost, (Prague, Czech Republic, Summer 1995, pp. 14-20

  "Frankfurt's Gotterdammerung: My Rites of Passage," Wagner News 14, November 1987, pp, 9-11

CO-EDITED VOLUMES:
  Common Knowledge Volume 1-6, 1992-1997, Oxford University Press, co-edited with Jeffrey Perl


SCHOLARLY BOOK REVIEWS:

  29 Reviews in Common Knowledge, 1992-1998
  10 Reviews in Ethics, 1981-1986


COMPLETED MANUSCRIPTS:

  Orphans. Bums, and Angels (a collection of 12 short stories, 192 pp.)

Spirits Colliding (novel, 496 pp.) 
 
 
Spirits Colliding
(novel)
Orphans, Bums and Angels
(short stories)
Publications
Biographical Sketch C.V. Interview
The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts & Humanities Sample Classes Creative Writing & Translation