<div>Born during the Great Depression, LIONEL GARCIA spent his early years with his grandfather on a ranch deep in the scrub country of South Texas. It is about his life in that hard-scrabble brush country that Garcia so beautifully writes. In addition to his fictionalized autobiography, <i>I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring</i>, Garcia has published four novels and three collections of stories.<i>Brush Country</i> is the first collection of poetry by this award- winning author.</div>