Skeleton of a Bridge

by Robert Mirabal

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING & MINOR EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. AUTHOR SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGE. NO OTHER MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK.

116 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

Reviews

[juch]

What a gift to have gone to Taos Pueblo and to have discovered this musician and book. I loved the loose vignettes, the simple way devastating things would be described, side by side w poop jokes. The different scales mashed together felt very real, maybe true to the way that traditional practices must live alongside others under settler colonialism. The ellipses…

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of short vignettes that are often poetic, and then sometimes they are fully poems. They are always drenched in memory. Often they are the memories of young boys, so there is an overemphasis on disgusting smells and body functions that seems to transcend cultures. Those create a real sense of time and place, and what life was like as then. The later stories are not as physical, more haunted by the past, and so less caught up in the present. The feelings are always real.

[Tamara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have met Robert a number of times. He is a multi-talented man composing, singing, playing flute and drums. He was the creator of "Music from a Painted Cave". This book is a memoir back to his childhood, growing up at Taos Pueblo.