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The Festival of Bones / El festival de las calaveras: The Little-bitty Book for the Day of the Dead

By Bobby Byrd (trans), John William Byrd (trans) and Luis San Vicente

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9781941026038 | Bilingual edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, September 23, 2014), cover price $7.95

Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary

Product Description: Growing up in Memphis, #3:In 1952 Dewey Phillips invented Elvis.It happened on the radio.Rock n' Roll saved my life.In 1960 the bad guys sold Elvis into slavery.Don't let anybody tell you different.This morning I made love with the lettuce picker:Every year the lettuce picker plants her seeds in October...read more

By Bobby Byrd

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9781935955757 | Cinco Puntos Pr, May 20, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Growing up in Memphis, #3:In 1952 Dewey Phillips invented Elvis.

White Panties, Dead Friends & Other Bits & Pieces of Love

Product Description: What Happened on My Front Porch Last night Allen Ginsberg waved goodbyeforever. Several bees, a scorpion and a butterflyjoined him in his departure, although I didnâtsee them go off together. Their disappearancewas purely speculation...read more

By Bobby Byrd

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9780938317722 | Cinco Puntos Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: What Happened on My Front Porch Last night Allen Ginsberg waved goodbyeforever.

Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from LA Frontera

Product Description: The magazine Traffic got it wrong! The Border-with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units-is a lens into the future of the "new world economy." But itâs misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and even sentimentalized by the national media portraying it from its Big Brother perspective...read more

By Bobby Byrd (editor), J. W. Thomas Byrd (editor) and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (editor)

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9780938317593 | 1 edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The magazine Traffic got it wrong!

The Price of Doing Business in Mexico: Poems

Product Description: Southwest Book Award WinnerByrdâs poems open a strange doorâJesus Christ and Mary Magdalene are spotted making love in downtown El Paso, a private detective goes south to Toluca to find a revolution in his heart, a sad-faced clown in Florsheim shoes lectures the poet on the mortality of his mother, and Dante and Virgil show up to explain the true meaning of North Dallas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bobby Byrd

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9780938317401 | Cinco Puntos Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Southwest Book Award WinnerByrdâs poems open a strange doorâJesus Christ and Mary Magdalene are spotted making love in downtown El Paso, a private detective goes south to Toluca to find a revolution in his heart, a sad-faced clown in Florsheim shoes lectures the poet on the mortality of his mother, and Dante and Virgil show up to explain the true meaning of North Dallas.

The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line

Gathers essays from sixteen poets, journalists, painters, activists, and artists, all sharing a concern about the disappearing Mexican border (view table of contents)

By Bobby Byrd (editor) and Susannah Mississippi Byrd (editor)

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9780938317241 | Cinco Puntos Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Gathers essays from sixteen poets, journalists, painters, activists, and artists, all sharing a concern about the disappearing Mexican border

On the Transmigration of Souls in El Paso

Product Description: Bobby Byrd says "El Paso is a desert city rooted like a thicket of salt cedar, cottonwoods and mesquite on the banks of the Rio Grande. The Mexicans call it the Rio Bravo. This shallow ribbon of muddy water becomes, within the city limits of El Paso, the border between Mexico and the United States...read more

By Bobby Byrd

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9780938317197 | Cinco Puntos Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Bobby Byrd says "El Paso is a desert city rooted like a thicket of salt cedar, cottonwoods and mesquite on the banks of the Rio Grande.

Get Some Fuses for the House: Householder Poems, El Paso, Texas

By Bobby Byrd

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Hardcover:

9781556430060 | North Atlantic Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $20.00

Paperback:

9781556430046 | North Atlantic Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $7.95

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