Author's Acknowledgments

Editor's Acknowledgments

No Introduction  Chon A. Noriega
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Essays and Interviews

Three Interviews
Written in Collaboration with Gronk and Willie Herron

Interview: Gronk and Gamboa
27

Gronk and Herron: Muralists
32

Gronk: No Movie Maker
44

Urban Exile
51

Reflections on One School in East L.A.
56

Serpents in the City of Angels: After Twenty Years of Political Activism,
Has L. A. Chicano Art Been Defanged?
64

In the City of Angels, Chameleons, and Phantoms:  Asco, a Case Study of
Chicano Art in Urban Tones
(or, Asco Was a Four-Member Word)
71

Past Imperfecto
88

Light at the End of Tunnel Vision
97

Refractions of Home
121

No Movies

A La Mode
131

No Phantoms
135

Young Boy in the 50s
139

The Gores
143

Waiting for Tickets
147

Stapled
151

Scissors
155

Autologüe Series

Fade In/Fade Out
161

Autologue 2
162

Autologue 25, 75, and 100
163

Angel's Flight
166

Bomba
168

Artopsy
168

Pistolwhippersnapper
172

No Slapstick
178

Performance

Cafe O'Lay
183

Pseudoturquoisers
189

Pinguino (1980)
Written in Collaboration with
Gronk and Willie Herron
196

Shadow Solo:  Detour via Obsession
202

Void and Vain
209

Orphans of Modernism:  
A Radio Play
215

Jetter's Jinx:
A Conceptual Drama
224

Antizona:  
A Conceptual Performance
241

Ismania:  
A Conceptual Performance
252

Bravo Heights:  
A Comedy for Television (unfinished)
268

No Crossing
278

There Was Eternal Disorder in the Silence
Which Followed the Expulsion of the Species
282

Club Limbo
285

Ignore the Dents
305

Double Negativity:  
A Play in Desperate Acts
324

Vex Requiem:  
A Play with Music in Two Acts
329

Fiction

Cruel Profit
365

Dia de los Muertos
371

Phobia Friend
378

Vacant Tour
384

A Rival Departure
396

No Gray Matter
404

INS and Outs
408

Alibi No
413

Off Lines
420

No Beans in My Tortilla
427

Writer's Blockade
432

Head's Turn
436

Kiko's Kut
440

Hate Male
448

Whichever Way the Lead Blows
452

No Alibi
458

Rush Hour
462

Low and Slow
465

Chavalo Was Lost at "Sí"
467

Where They Found Javier
472

Oscar's Middle Finger (unfinished)
480

In the Realm of the Senseless
488

Poetry

The Chosen Fugue
490

I Don't Buy My Tacos from Trucks
Parked Too Close to Sex Change Clinics 509

Ruby without Redress
513

Celebrity without a Cause
514

No Atonement
516

Azure Seizure (in Idahopeless)
518

Authority Figureless
520

Roll of the Dyed Ice
522

Liar's Nix
524

Deleted to Meet You
525

Gila's Alibi
527

Furious Descent of Crows
528

Urban Decay Buffet
529

Relativity
531

No Jalapeño Hot Enough
532

Phantoms Speak My Languish
533

Opposing Fast Lanes
534

Nothing's Wrong
536

Two Tongues
537

Man Under the Influenza
538

The Little Prints
540

Rebuilding
542

Publication Information

Publication Information
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