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Overview
This collection balances ample selections from award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez’s six previous books with 30 new poems. Gonzalez’s early poems are dominated by Southwest desert landscapes and deal with the pressure of conflicts between border cultures. More recent poems upend prevailing stories about historical figures, artists, and writers, create new animal myths, and push traditional boundaries of the free verse lyric deeper into surrealism.
Ray Gonzalez has published 14 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and has edited 12 anthologies. He is the poetry editor of The Bloomsbury Review and founder of the poetry journal LUNA. He is a full professor in the MFA creative writing program at the Universityof Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781929918706 |
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Publisher: | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Publication date: | 09/01/2005 |
Series: | American Poets Continuum , #94 |
Pages: | 205 |
Sales rank: | 676,233 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Ray Gonzalez has authored numerous books of poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, and edited twelve anthologies. He is poetry editor for The Bloomsbury Review, and founding editor of the poetry journal Luna. He is a full professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The Universityof Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Table of Contents
Consideration of the Guitar: New Poems | ||
Speak Easy | 13 | |
The Carved Hands at San Miguel | 14 | |
Over the Shoulder | 15 | |
Sending You | 16 | |
The Skeleton of the Lizard | 18 | |
Every Ten Years, a Hawk Kills Before Me | 19 | |
Runaway Train | 20 | |
Fierce God | 21 | |
Emerge | 24 | |
Into | 26 | |
Stopping Along the Rio Grande North of Hatch, New Mexico | 28 | |
The Light at Mesilla | 29 | |
Ascending the Stone Steps at the Gran Quivira Ruins | 31 | |
Andre Breton at Zuni Pueblo, 1945 | 33 | |
Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall | 35 | |
In the Time of the Totem | 36 | |
The Wolf Table | 37 | |
Immediacy | 39 | |
The Hiding | 40 | |
Celestial Longing | 42 | |
The Horns at Sierra Ladrone, New Mexico | 43 | |
A Poem in Every Direction | 45 | |
Fever | 47 | |
Consideration of the Guitar | 48 | |
The Walls | 50 | |
The Burning | 53 | |
Memorize | 57 | |
I Have Been Served | 59 | |
The Promises of Glass | 61 | |
Hymn for the Tongue | 62 | |
The Mask | 63 | |
Another | 65 | |
After Reading Rexroth, I Stand by the Rio Grande | 66 | |
Celebrate | 68 | |
My Brothers | 69 | |
from The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (2002) | ||
There Will Be Centuries | 73 | |
Tiny Clay Doll with No Arms | 75 | |
For the Other World | 77 | |
I Hear the Bells of the Ice Cream Vendor Outside My Door | 79 | |
Kiva Floor at Abo | 80 | |
Granadilla | 82 | |
Federico Garcia Lorca's Desk | 83 | |
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande | 84 | |
What You Will Remember | 85 | |
I Am Afraid of the Moon | 87 | |
Falling into a Face | 88 | |
Kick the Heart | 89 | |
What the Cottonwood Said | 91 | |
from Cabato Sentora (1999) | ||
Calling the White Donkey | 97 | |
Under the Freeway in El Paso | 98 | |
Cabato | 100 | |
The Hawk in the Yard | 101 | |
Two Striped Lizards | 102 | |
The Finger Moth | 103 | |
From the Face | 105 | |
The Angels of Juarez, Mexico | 106 | |
White | 108 | |
Brown Pot | 113 | |
Beyond Having | 115 | |
The Head of Pancho Villa | 116 | |
At the Rio Grande near the End of the Century | 117 | |
from The Heat of Arrivals (1996) | ||
Watching a Film of Van Gogh on Christmas Eve | 121 | |
The Eagle in the Ashes | 123 | |
In the Time of the Scorpion | 124 | |
Sueno de Mexico | 126 | |
Rattlesnake Dance, Coronado Hills, 1966 | 129 | |
The Grandfather | 132 | |
Snakeskin | 133 | |
Never | 134 | |
The Energy of Clay | 135 | |
Ode to the Family of Spiders | 137 | |
Late Night Moon | 140 | |
The Magnets | 142 | |
from Railroad Face (1995) | ||
The Bell | 147 | |
Before the Facts | 148 | |
Railroad Face | 149 | |
Disguise | 151 | |
Roberto Denies He Is Superstitious | 157 | |
Roberto Talks to His Dead Brother | 158 | |
Roberto Anticipates These Gifts from His Dying Father | 159 | |
Roberto Recalls His Dead Grandfather | 160 | |
Roberto Concerning His Youth | 161 | |
Roberto Goes for a Walk After the War | 162 | |
Five Bird Songs | 163 | |
Adult | 167 | |
Knowing | 169 | |
from Twilights and Chants (1987) | ||
Sitting | 173 | |
One Day | 174 | |
The Opinion at Point Loma | 175 | |
Sunset and Moonrise over Cuchillo, New Mexico | 177 | |
Christmas Eve, Aguirre Springs, New Mexico, 1984 | 179 | |
Twilights and Chants | 182 | |
Hiding the Stone Horse | 183 | |
Absence of Lizards | 184 | |
Testament | 186 | |
Saving the Candles | 187 | |
from From the Restless Roots (1986) | ||
Prayer | 191 | |
Sunday | 192 | |
How Far Back? | 193 | |
Ascending | 194 | |
Four Towns, Don Juan de Onate Trail, New Mexico | 195 | |
Through the Creek, Cloride, New Mexico | 198 | |
Diamondback on the Trail | 200 | |
The Clay Bowls | 201 | |
The Poem at the End of the World | 202 | |
Acknowledgments | 204 | |
About the Author | 205 | |
Colophon | 208 |
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