War Stories.(Cinco Puntos publishes the second book by Subcomandante Marcos of Mexico's Zapatista guerillas)(Brief Article)

Publication: Texas Monthly

Publication Date: 01-JUL-01

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A WELL-RESPECTED PRESS IN EL PASO PUBLISHES ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY WORK.

BOBBY BYRD IS SITTING AT HIS DINING ROOM TABLE IN EL PASO, eating a burrito with his wife, Lee, and fantasizing about ways their small, gutsy press, Cinco Puntos, might provoke the National Endowment for the Arts to slam the book they have just published by Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of Mexico's Zapatista guerillas. "One of my new goals in fife," says Byrd, a poet as well as a publisher, "is to publish books that make the front page of the New York Times again."

The new work, Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution, is a sequel to a book by...

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