South of the Boredom

With a respectful, well-traveled eye, Jerry Bradley explores the magical, mythical and mundane of Mexico's cultural

expanse, from the sun-baked Southwest to the jutting fist of Tulum. Witty and observant, poignant and sure, these

poems peer past the exotic surface of far-flung moments, drawing out the universally human like aguamiel from

the heart of a hardy maguey.