Ray Gonzalez, Author . BOA $13.95 (108p) ISBN 978-1-929918-20-1
This seventh set of poems from Gonzalez (The Heat of Arrivals, etc.) seeks the pre-Columbian past, the newsworthy present and the envisioned future, imagining a varied cast of characters, among them Spanish explorers, Hopi priests, undocumented...
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Ray Gonzalez, Author . Univ. of Arizona $35 (186p) ISBN 978-0-8165-2032-9
-2034-8Returning to the U.S.-Mexico border area of his childhood, Gonzalez (Turtle Pictures), a poet and University of Minnesota English professor, presents 15 essays on coming back to the underground heart of his own identity: "Just as Duane [Al
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Ray Gonzalez, Author . BOA $16 (103p) ISBN 978-1-934414-29-3
In his 10th book, renowned prose poet Gonzalez proclaims he is at “the crossroads in [his] throat” where he “looks both ways.” Gonzalez is as quirky as ever, matching the didactic tone and jargon of a scientist with the...
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Ray Gonzalez, Author University of Arizona Press $17.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-8165-1966-8
Once an ""accessible"" poet, Gonzalez seems to be moving away from poems where a snake is a snake, and the desert wind a force of stark desiccation. The author of five books of poetry (From the Restless Roots; Twilights and Chants etc.), and the...
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Ray Gonzalez, Author Broken Moon Press $13.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-913089-49-1
A poet and editor of anthologies, Gonzalez ( Without Discovery: A Native Response to Columbus ) offers 29 essays and vignettes ranging from his 1960s boyhood in El Paso to his confrontation with his Chicano identity. His youthful practice of cutting
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Ray Gonzalez, Author, Ray Gonzalez, Essay by University of Arizona Press $17.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-8165-2034-3
Returning to the U.S.-Mexico border area of his childhood, Gonzalez (Turtle Pictures), a poet and University of Minnesota English professor, presents 15 essays on coming back to the underground heart of his own identity: ""Just as Duane [Allman]
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Ray Gonzalez. BOA Editions (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-938160-83-7
Gonzalez (Cool Auditor) has established himself as a writer of place, specifically the American Southwest. His latest collection emphasizes the mutability of the region and of the very idea of home. Meditative poems sift through the desert's...
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Ray Gonzalez, Author, Ray Gonzc!lez, Author, Ray Gonzlez, Author BOA Editions $20 (104p) ISBN 978-1-880238-38-7
In his fifth collection, Gonzales resurrects ghosts of long-dead Indians and Mexicans, mythic mountain men, relatives, snakes, scorpions, and lizards in his continuing exploration of Chicano heritage and self-identity. The Chicano and Native...
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Ray Gonzalez, Author, Ray Gonzc!lez, Author, Ray Gonzlez, Author BOA Editions $12.5 (124p) ISBN 978-1-880238-70-7
""The confessor/ with his metal cross,"" a ""Woman with Seven Iguanas on Her Head"" (""She is married to the Lizard Man"") and the poet of this fourth collection all inhabit an apocalyptic border landscape, weighted with with foreboding Catholic...
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Ray Gonzalez. Univ. of New Mexico, $18.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8263-6450-0
Gonzalez (Feel Puma) interrogates history, modern society, grief, and migration in his nuanced latest. “I am here,” he writes, “and I want to listen.” These poems are a testament to such listening, which allows for recognition of “the river [that]...
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