Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216).
Contents
The American people -- Pumping gas -- Flying backward -- Bigger, better, best -- Race and racism : the 2008 election -- The cell remembers -- Rolling eyes -- Remembering mother -- First laugh -- Piercing the walls -- Oņate's right foot -- Can poetry matter? -- Words for El corno emplumado -- The living silence of a place like Kiet Seel -- Betrayal -- Crystal's gift -- The place where color sounds -- My losses.