Autobiography of Cotton Format:Paperback It all began with some

It all began with some ruminations prompted by a dog

and there are several ‘found’ poems as in the witty ‘The Complete Index of Welsh Emotions’

But where Pliny the Elder saw starlight

First published to great acclaim in 1987

the mystery of what happened to him never solved

Autobiography of Cotton Format:Paperback It all began with someDeeply personal and politically acute, in Autobiography of Cotton, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents lives and the territories they helped develop. In this intimate fictionalisation, Rivera Garza reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonisation, labour activism, environmental degradation and cross border migration.