Scene from the Movie Giant

A 14 year-old boy sits in the darkness of the Holiday Theater watching a scene of anti-Mexican racism in a Rock Hudson / Elizabeth Taylore movie. This scene, this memory, is at the heart of Scene from the Movie GIANT,a remarkable book-length poem in five parts by Tino Villanueva. Villanueva excavates the meaning of this scene and in doing so grapples with urgent questions of cultural identity.

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(15)

I

The 8:00 O'Clock Movie

15

(2)

The Benedicts (Up-Close)

17

(1)

The Serving of Water

18

(2)

Claiming the Air

20

(1)

Text for a Vaquero: Flashback

21

(4)

II

The Existence of Sarge

25

(2)

On the Subject of Staying Whole

27

(1)

Stop-Action: Impression

28

(1)

Fallingrief of Unpleasure

29

(1)

Without a Prayer at the Holiday Theater

30

(3)

III

Fight Scene Beginning

33

(2)

Fight Scene, Part II

35

(2)

Fight Scene: Final Frames

37

(12)

IV

The Trailing Consequence: A Triptych

Journey Home

41

(2)

Observer and Observed

43

(1)

Dusk with Dreaming

44

(5)

V

That Autumn

49

(1)

Fade-Out-Fade-In

50

(1)

The Slow Weight of Time

51

(1)

The Telling

52

(3)

Notes

55

(2)

About the author

57

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Scene from the Movie Giant

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