Hustle documents the author's Latino youth in San Diego, California, an inferno of stolen cars, silent sex, and murdered valedictorians.

On Palomar Mountain

I.

Calaveras

II.

To The Young
Shed
Sabbath Fe Minus
California Penal Code 266
In Chicano Park
The Only Mexican
Innominatus

III.

Rest in Motion
Small Discoveries
The Sofa King
Apotropaic
The Cost of it All
Rebeccäs Use
Coveralls

IV.

Forgetting Willie James Jones
Of Mockingbirds
Scientifically Speaking
This Bird Chest Holds a Bird¿s Heart
They Say I Teach English, I Say
A Sunday March
The Mechanics of Men

David Tomas Martinez: David Tomas Martinez has published in San Diego Writer's Ink, Charlotte Journal, Poetry International, and been featured in Border Voices. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston, Martinez is also an editor for Gulf Coast.