Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A work by this US poet laureate which defies characterization . "Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of postmodern America. . . Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise." SIGNED and dated on the title page. In 2024, he received the MacArthur "genius award." 186 pp. plus 4 photographs. ISBN: 0816522154.