The Price of Doing Business in Mexico: and Other Poems 1st edition

Southwest Book Award Winner

Byrd?s poems open a strange door?Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene are spotted making love in downtown El Paso, a private detective goes south to Toluca to find a revolution in his heart, a sad-faced clown in Florsheim shoes lectures the poet on the mortality of his mother, and Dante and Virgil show up to explain the true meaning of North Dallas.