The Flying Garcias

Richard Garcia

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 1993
• eBook ISBN: 9780822979036
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

A collection by a poet whose work is by turns humorous, dark, quirky, romantic, and lyric.

Table of contents

• Contents
• The Book of Dreams
• La Calle del Niño Perdido
• Shadow Captain
• Why I Left the Church
• Reflections of a Stowaway
• In the Year 1946
• Mi Mamá, the Playgirl
• Thing
• Reception at the Yacht Club
• Some Mornings
• Watching a French Movie with Hebrew Subtitles
• Fish Grow as They Leave the Water
• Like a Chicken About to Cross a Road
• Chickens Everywhere
• Sideways Angel
• While Trading Clothes in a Rest Stop Bathroom
• Fly Fishing in England
• Glass
• Pen
• Dixit Dominus, Domino Meo
• My Life as a Dancer
• Doing the Tarantella with Lola Montez
• Sadness and the Movies
• Eternal Return
• A Good Year
• I Was a Teenage Zombie
• The Death of Zorro
• Pancho Villa in the Land of Forever
• Waking to the Radio
• The Defiant Ones
• The Quiet Ones
• Held at Gunpoint, I Remember the Fourth Grade
• A Hero in the War
• The Flying Garcias
• The Real Jesse James
• Wide Awake at 3:30 A.M.
• The Experts, the Man in the Street, the Crowd
• The Contras
• Roustabout
• The Story of Keys
• Swinging from the Moon on a Bosun's Chair
• Delicately
• Brief Entanglements
• Hôtel des Grandes Écoles
• After the Métro Has Closed
• Los Amantes
• Hiding Out
• The Detective Gone Bad
• Hotel Boston
• No Quarrels Today
• Waiting in a Parked Car
• Open Letter to My Friends
• The Wild Boy and His Dog
• The Book of Forgetting