Philip Garrison is a bilingual writer and community organizer, retired after fifty years of teaching at universities in the western U.S. and Mexico. He has authored five volumes of poetry and four essay collections.
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Preface PART ONE. Identity Theft Life and Times Testimonio 1 Before Long, in a While Testimonio 2 Dear Tucker Testimonio 3 Aguas Testimonio 4 Somewhere Nobody Else Wanted to Live Testimonio 5 PART TWO. What You Hear Secondhand Testimonio 6 Hearsay Testimonio 7 Anniversaries Testimonio 8 Uncle Lou versus the Nineteenth Century Testimonio 9 Fire and Elephants Testimonio 10 PART THREE. What Emerges from the Husk Testimonio 11 Letter from Manastash Creek Testimonio 12 Casta Testimonio 13 Everyone Agrees Testimonio 14 Letter from Millpond Manor Testimonio 15 El Chacuaco
"Garrison bears witness in vivid prose to the seemingly mundane, and in doing so he makes the mundane become provocative. This is a book I could read over and over and each time find new insights into the human condition." -Ken Lamberton, author of Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison "Garrison sets up vivid and powerful contrasts and comparisons, snapshots of farflung cultures, mexicano/hillbilly, fragmented, then cohering-or beginning to cohere-in novel ways. An important, deeply knowledgeable portrait of time and place." -C. M. Mayo, author of Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution