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Author García, Richard, 1941-

Title The flying Garcias / Richard Garcia
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (75 pages)
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series
Contents The Book of Dreams -- La Calle del Nino Perdido -- Shadow Captain -- Why I Left the Church -- Reflections of a Stowaway -- In the Year 1946 -- Mi Mamma, the Playgirl -- Thing -- Reception at the Yacht Club -- Some Mornings -- Watching a French Movie with Hebrew Subtitles -- Fish Grow as They Leave the Water -- Like a Chicken About to Cross a Road -- Chickens Everywhere -- Sideways Angel -- While Trading Clothes in a Rest Stop Bathroom -- Fly Fishing in England -- Glass -- Pen -- Dixit Dominus, Domino Meo -- My Life as a Dancer -- Doing the Tarantella with Lola Montez -- Sadness and the Movies -- Eternal Return -- A Good Year -- I was a Teenage Zombie -- The Death of Zorro -- Pancho Villa in the Land of Forever -- Waking to the Radio -- The Defiant Ones -- The Quiet Ones -- Held at Gunpoint, I Remember the Fourth Grade -- A Hero in the War -- The Flying Garcias -- The Real Jesse James -- Wide Awake at 3:30 A.M. -- The Experts, the Man in the Street, the Crowd -- The Contras -- Roustabout
The Story of Keys -- Swinging from the Moon on a Bosun's Chair -- Delicately -- Brief Entanglements -- Hotel des Grandes Ecoles -- After the Metro Has Closed -- Los Amantes -- Hiding Out -- The Detective Gone Bad -- Hotel Boston -- No Quarrels Today -- Waiting in a Parked Car -- Open Letter to My Friends -- The Wild Boy and His Dog -- The Book of Forgetting
Summary "I am reminded of the Argentinean writers Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, but with sunglasses and in California. The Flying Garcias is a sure voice and a fine book."--Alberto Ríos
Analysis English poetry
United States
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Subject Poetry
poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822979036
0822979039