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It tells about the gulf between rival crews of graffiti "writers" in the streets of L.A.
This collage of journalism, diary entries and verse explores the tensions within culture, politics and spirituality experienced by an author living between two worlds: specifically the First and Third World.
Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. -La Rochefoucauld
Both an award-winning journalist and a poet, Martnez tracks a migrant family from Mexico to the U.S., and shows how migrant culture is changing America. 13 illustrations.
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This collage of journalism, diary entries and verse explores the tensions within culture, politics and spirituality experienced by an author living between two worlds: specifically the First and Third World.
"Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock—maybe of recognition, maybe alarm—then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go."—William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—was writ nowhere as large as on the American West. Over the past decade, the most iconic of American landscapes has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. In Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, acclaimed author Rubén ...