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    Polaroids For The Devil: Desert Poems
    Polaroids For The Devil: Desert Poems
    Polaroids For The Devil: Desert Poems
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    Polaroids For The Devil: Desert Poems

    By JD Mindieta

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    JD Mindieta first experienced the desert on a very long road trip in a 1986 two-tone Dodge Caravan with his parents from Oklahoma to Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
    After his mother’s death in 2004, he again took to the road on a journey from Oklahoma...this time to Los Angeles and back.
    He left his heart somewhere in the New Mexico scrub. The book was written along the way, and shortly afterward, this transformative journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD Mindieta
    Release dateAug 31, 2014
    ISBN9781310978760
    Polaroids For The Devil: Desert Poems
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    JD Mindieta

    JD Mindieta is a writer, photographer, and visual artist from Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.

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      Polaroids For The Devil - JD Mindieta

      Polaroids For the Devil

      by JD Mindieta

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      Table of Contents

      Chasing The Sun Down

      Phoenix

      Sonora

      Gypsy

      The Bittersweet Of Letting Go

      Oklahoma City Insomnia

      Interstate 17

      He Could Run

      Past The City

      Sometimes It's Better To Ride

      The Bitter Hiss Of Distance

      Fire-flying

      Idaho and Waiting

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