Rancho Notorious

Signed copies available in limited supply Like the movie of the same name, the poems in Rancho Notorious are peopled with a colorful cast of characters, all born of the fertile imagination of Richard Garcia. Through narratives, lyric poems and dramatic monologues, Garcia’s characters demonstrate that the idea of self is fluid, one identity easily swapped for another. These are poems with heart, poems that believe that the construction of memory, however fragmentary and inconclusive, is also an act of redemption. Cat's Cradle Notice how the man standing at the freeway entrance, pretending he's waiting for a carpool, strokes a string that holds his briefcase together. Do you remember an insistence of a kite pulling at your wrist? Now recall a skate key on a string bouncing against your chest, the indecipherable knot of fishing line that suddenly shot through the guides and disappeared into black water. Consider the Gordian knot: was it a kind of book, some ancient, lunar knowledge