Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler

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ISBN: 9780816522156 | 0816522154
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Copyright: 8/1/2002

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Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times to craft his most personal work to date. Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, standup clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler is a crucible of flavorful language meant to be rolled lazily on the mind's tongue -- and then swallowed whole to let its hot and savory sweetness fill your soul. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Hard Curas on "C" Street
Hard Curas on "C" Street	p. 5
Limpia for Walking into Clear Campos	p. 6
Immigrant Fortune Teller Machine	p. 9
Chile Con Karma
Oyeme, Mamita: Standing on 20th & Harrison	p. 17
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #1	p. 18
New York City Angelic: Josh, my son, said	p. 19
Greyhound Depot Chavalo, San Diego, '57	p. 21
Watering Cebolla While My Father Burns Lena	p. 22
New York City Angelic: Listen closely	p. 23
Don't Worry, Baby	p. 26
June Journals 6-2-88	p. 30
Oyeme, Mamita: What is this "looking," this "seeing" you mention?	p. 31
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #8	p. 32
Foodstuffs They Never Told Us About	p. 33
At the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival	p. 35
Patrick Henry Elementary, San Francisco, Sixth-Grade Class Photo	p. 36
Machofilia(s)	p. 38
Millennium Omens	p. 40
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #30	p. 42
June Journals 6-1-88	p. 43
Oyeme, Mamita: La Reina is gone. Bekins is out	p. 44
June Journals 6-3-88	p. 45
In Case You're Still Wondering about Racism	p. 46
Events & Found Objects after the Blast	p. 48
June Journals 6-27-88	p. 50
June Journals 6-29-88	p. 51
June Journals 6-7-88	p. 52
Oyeme, Mamita: Tortilla Flats is the place to be	p. 53
Man Goes Woman	p. 54
Abuelita Sofi Smokes Up la Cocina	p. 56
Oyeme, Mamita: Another crossing	p. 57
New York City Angelic: I sit at gate #9	p. 59
New York City Angelic: I was doing a poetry reading thing	p. 60
Things Religion Makes Me Do	p. 61
June Journals 6-23-88	p. 63
New York City Angelic: I have an appointment	p. 64
New York City Angelic: Back on Schedule	p. 65
Cunada Yoli, en el Jale	p. 66
Margarita Walks the Fields in Fresno	p. 67
Huerta Street Telenovelas	p. 68
June Journals 6-5-88	p. 69
Tio Fernando & the Chamuco of Atizapan de Zaragoza	p. 70
Subtleties	p. 72
Fuzzy Equations	p. 74
June Journals 6-4-88	p. 75
It Is Said	p. 76
How to Make World Unity Salsa	p. 77
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #31	p. 79
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Additional Counts of Suffering	p. 80
La Marlene Grew Up in the Movimiento	p. 81
June Journals 6-16-88	p. 83
Oyeme, Mamita: Letters on asphalt, letters on coffee, letters on rags	p. 84
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #10	p. 85
My Plutomobile	p. 87
June Journals 6-29-88	p. 89
June Journals 6-5-88	p. 90
Simon Says	p. 91
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #4	p. 92
A Poet's 2027 Odyssey Backpack Instructions	p. 93
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #9	p. 94
Ten Still Lives	p. 95
June Journals 6-13-88	p. 96
Steppin' into Power in the Age of Plutonium, the Super-Right, & Other Explosive	p. 97
June Journals 6-25-88	p. 104
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #38	p. 105
Sonny, Rudy, Rene, & Me	p. 106
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Category Makers	p. 107
Tio Chente Brings Ancient Coins from China	p. 108
Notes on Other Chicana & Chicano Inventions	p. 109
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #17	p. 112
Ejotes con Mayonesa	p. 113
Orange Stop on 99	p. 114
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #11	p. 115
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Ninth Sun	p. 116
Cry Like a Man	p. 117
June Journals 6-6-88	p. 118
The Cat My Mother Cradled	p. 119
Avenida Constitucion, Tijuana	p. 120
El Teatro Reforma (con Clavillazo & Queso de Puerco Tortas on the Side during Intermission, circa 1959, Tijuana, Baja California)	p. 121
The Red-Striped Accordion I Never Played	p. 122
La Momia Azteca Always Followed Me across the Border While I Hid Madero Whiskey in My Cowboy Boots (Late Night Traffic)	p. 123
Love the Victim Harder Than You Love His Killer	p. 124
Chican@ Literature 100	p. 126
How to Enroll in a Chicano Studies Class	p. 127
How to Be a Warrior for the Aztlan Liberation Army (ALA)	p. 128
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Machine Hole	p. 130
Vietnam Veterano Special (with Aspirins & White Powdered Donuts)	p. 131
Taking a Bath in Aztlan	p. 132
Undelivered Letters to Victor: #7	p. 134
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Notebook	p. 135
Oyeme, Mamita: Welfare Days & Welfare Nights	p. 136
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Audience	p. 137
June Journals 6-30-88	p. 138
June Journals 6-4-88	p. 139
New York City Angelic: Reading Ginsberg's	p. 140
New York City Angelic: Need a Zen quote	p. 141
New York City Angelic: PS 94	p. 142
Oyeme, Mamita: I am that paper	p. 144
On the Other Side of Puccini's
Letania para Jose Antonio Burciaga	p. 147
On the Other Side of Puccini's (North Beach, San Francisco, 1994)	p. 150
Hispanopoly: The Upwardly Mobile Identity Game Show
Hispavision Presents: Hispanopoly--The Upwardly Mobile Identity Game Show	p. 155
Ever Split Your Pantalones While Trying to Look Chingon?	p. 163
Two Tacos al Pastoral
How to Comb Your Hair High Up Like a Tipi	p. 164
My Chickens Say, "Por favor, si senor, si senora"	p. 166
Three Surefire Ethnic Sitcoms
The Lost Picasso Enchilada Silhouettes: A "Noba Yor" Story	p. 168
Juantoomany	p. 175
La Llorona Power-Woman Confidential	p. 177
Subcomandante Chihuahua Speaks to the World Finance Ministers & the World Banko	p. 180
How to Make a Chile Verde Smuggler
Interview at the Total Liberation Cafe	p. 183
How to Make a Chile Verde Smuggler: Last Call	p. 186
Notebook Fragments	p. 187
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