"Brush Country captures the hardness of hard life in a hard 
land, and it does it about as well as anything I have ever seen. 
The manuscript works well as a whole. It is a threnody from 
start to finish; even the war death fits because that is a part 
of the experience, just as the death of the thrown rider. War 
death here seems merely one more working death in the harsh 
environment. The experience described has, it seems to me, 
nothing in common with East Texas or the South. Death is
common enough to both, but Garcia's work derives wholly from
the Southwest. Garcia, who grew up in Brush Country, has
nailed it."—Phillip Parotti, author, The Greek Generals Talk,
The Trojan Generals Talk, and Fires in the Sky

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Born during the Great Depression, LIONEL GARCIA spent his
early years with his grandfather on a ranch deep in the scrub
country of South Texas. It is about his life in that hard-scrabble
brush country that Garcia so beautifully writes. In addition to his 
fictionalized autobiography, I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring, 
Garcia has published four novels and three collections of stories.
Brush Country is the first collection of poetry by this award-
winning author.