Intro -- Contents -- 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 House 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. |