ISBN-13: 9780393315318 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 112 str.
Much of Martinez's private iconography comes from the picket-fence California community of his youth, in which large events--from the veneration of pop icons (Jean Harlow, Ed Sullivan) to the Vietnam War--seemed to move in slow motion. As an adult, the poet tries to make sense of what the child could not grasp.