Research Catalog

Title

The price of doing business in Mexico : poems / by Bobby Byrd.

Author

Byrd, Bobby, 1942-

Publication

El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

xi, 131 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Contents

• Steak and Eggs - A Prologue -- The Price of Doing Business in Mexico -- The phone rings in the 6 a.m. darkness -- It's Sunday Morning, and Socrates and His Buddy Plato Drop by for a Visit -- Poets Have Few Things To Say -- The News from Armageddon In Five Parts -- Galveston, Texas, #4 -- The Art of the American Southwest -- Mother Comes for a Visit -- November 18, 1992 -- City Life -- Timothy's Struggles with God -- Unintelligible Drunken Memo to Myself Written on an Unlined 3x5 Index Card -- Tuesday Night, #17 -- How to Eat Stuffed Fish in Juarez -- like the creek -- The United States of America -- July in the Desert of Chihuahua -- Whatever Happened to Art in America? -- The Price of Groceries -- Breaking and Entering -- An Elegy for Joe Brainard -- The Sign on Interstate 10 -- The Rules of Engagement, 1997 -- The Meaning of North Dallas -- Monday Night Football -- U.S. Dollars in El Salvador -- The Lady with the Bugs on her Legs -- Guatemala 1991 --
• Tury the Fag was Here -- Karma Finds Jesus Christ in El Paso -- Winter Solstice, El Paso -- June 17, 1993 -- One of These Days Somebody Will Tell This Story -- Gizmos -- Still The Heat Won't Go Away -- The Handsome Stranger -- A Clown Talks About My Mother's Soul -- The Gabachos in the Photograph -- Goodbye -- In Paradise -- Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in La Alameda Central -- You are the Reason I Came Home from Mexico City -- It's My Turn to Clean Up the Dogshit in the Backyard -- Yellow Flowers in the Spring -- Memo to My Granddaughter Hannah -- 15 Minutes.

ISBN

0938317407 (paper)

LCCN

98027011

OCLC

ocm39322763

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries