Download or read book The New World Border written by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry and essays by a Hispanic stand-up comic. In the poem, On U.S.-Mexico Relations, he writes: "I called you 'gringo' de carino / you called me 'minority' twice / we didn't mean it, of course / but we were somehow damned by History."