DUSK & DUST : Poems (Advance Reading Copy of 9/4/18) by Esteban Rodríguez - 2019

Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Press, 2019. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Advance Reading Copy; scheduled for Sept, 2019 publication. Softcover/Fine. A vivid free-verse collection of growing up on the US-Mexico borderlands with a foot in two worlds. Memoir of heart-felt songs from Esteban Rodriguez who now teaches in Austin, TX. 63 pages. From pg 47, Exodus: "Even if decades of laying cement have abbreviated his balance and step, and his spine can lo longer commit to symmtry -/curving like a question mark - my father continues to brush aside his posture's battle with gravity, his joints' petition for retirement/ .../Because routine is the only thing that keeps his name on the payroll ...