Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry by this award-winning writer which "offers an unflinching view of 'Californias Heartland,' the San Joaquin Valley.. . The book opens with an image of Fresno as 'the inexhaustible nerve/in the twitching leg of a dog/three hours after being smashed/beneath the retread wheel/of a tomato truck en route to/a packing house that was raided/by the feds just days before the harvest.' It ends with 'Adios, Fresno,' an astringent farewell to the city: 'You can keep your fields,/the sun will follow me./I wont reconsider./Ive overstayed my welcome/by three generations'." SIGNED and dated in 2014 on the title page. A title in the Camino del Sol series. Cover…
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry by this award-winning writer which "offers an unflinching view of 'Californias Heartland,' the San Joaquin Valley.. . The book opens with an image of Fresno as 'the inexhaustible nerve/in the twitching leg of a dog/three hours after being smashed/beneath the retread wheel/of a tomato truck en route to/a packing house that was raided/by the feds just days before the harvest.' It ends with 'Adios, Fresno,' an astringent farewell to the city: 'You can keep your fields,/the sun will follow me./I wont reconsider./Ive overstayed my welcome/by three generations'." SIGNED and dated in 2014 on the title page. A title in the Camino del Sol series. Cover praise from Amy Gerstler, Diana Garcia and others. 68 pp. ISBN: 978-0816530120.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the borderlands between California and Mexico - a world where immigrants struggle to maintain their humanity and to protect their families despite the bitter toil, violence and sexual predators. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. Map. Glossary, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-618-056149.
NATURAL TAKEOVER OF SMALL THINGS.
HIGHWIRE MOON.
