Acknowledgments
Part 1: Smarting Points, Starting Points
Summer's Passage, Southern California, 1990
Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793
Ghost Whisper to My Lover
Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte
Ghost Whisper to My Lover
Part 2: Childhood and Other Language Lessons
Bakersfield, California, 1970–72
Zacapu, México, 1972–79
Thermal, California, 1979–80
Thermal, 1981–82 (Our Little Home on Top of the Garage)
Summer’s Passage
Part 3: Adolescent Mariposa
Ghost Whisper to My Lover
Indio, 1983–88 ("El Campo" Years)
Part 4: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead
Summer’s Passage
Ghost Whisper to My Lover
Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago)
Part 5: Unpinned
Riverside, California
Ghost Whisper to My Lover