Beautiful Wall takes us on a profound journey through the deserts of the Southwest where the ever-changing natural landscape and an aggressive border culture rewrite intolerance and ethnocentric thought into human history. Inextricably linked to his Mexican ancestry and American upbringing, Ray Gonzalez’s new collection mounts the wall between the current realities of violence and politics, and a beautiful, never-to-be-forgotten past.
Ray Gonzalez is the author of fifteen books of poetry. The recipient of numerous awards, including a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Border Regional Library Association, he is a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
A JUDGE ORDERS THE OPENING OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA’S GRAVE
PAUL CELAN’S ASHES
CHURCH
GODS IN THE ATTIC
BARREL CACTUS
LAST NIGHT
IN THE COTTONWOODS
THE MUD ANGELS, MESILLA, NEW MEXICO
LAS BRUJAS DE LA MESA, NEW MEXICO
HUMMINGBIRD ON THE PORCH
DOUBLE SEASONS
THE FIELDS OF LA MESILLA
ANTLERS IN THE TREE, LIVERMORE, COLORADO
TEACHER
STONE CUSHION
AXIS
THEY CALL THE MOUNTAIN CARLOS
THE BORDER IS A LINE
ONE EL PASO, TWO EL PASO
LANDSCAPE IS AN ABSTRACTION
STICKY MONKEY FLOWERS, MONTEREY BAY
JULIO CORTAZAR’S CAT
AGAIN
GIVE HISTORY A CHANCE
DRIVING PAST A MISSILE SILO NEAR LANGSDEN, NORTH DAKOTA
THE LYNCHING POSTCARD, DULUTH, MINNESOTA
FUCKING AZTECS, PALOMAS MEXICO
BURNING BREAST
TOUCH
STONE
THE DONKEY CART APPARITION, LAS TRUCHAS, NEW MEXICO
MEDITATION AT CANUTILLO
LIES
CROSSING NEW MEXICO WITH WELDON KEES
SNOW FIELDS ON FIRE
TO BE
THE SACRED FIRE
THE WAR MUSEUM
MY NEPHEW’S ARMY HELMET
THREE UNFINISHED MASTERPIECES
MAX ERNST WITH HIS COLLECTION OF KACHINAS, NEW YORK, 1936
RENE CHAR PAINTS ON A PIECE OF BARK DURING A NIGHT OF INSOMNIA
THE SOUL CAN’T PAINT ITSELF
BALD EAGLE NORTH OF SHELBY, MONTANA
THE PLAIN OF HOOVES
THE DRUMS
HOSPITAL
NICANOR PARRA
VIOLINS
17 YEAR OLD ROBERT ZIMMERMAN ATTENDS A BUDDY HOLLY CONCERT IN DULUTH, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 31, 1959
BOB DYLAN’S NEWPORT GUITAR
DUANE ALLMAN WITH THE CROSS
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART LEAVES HIS BODY
INVISIBLE GUITAR
DRIVING AROUND EL PASO, MARVIN GAYE’S “WHAT’S GOING ON” COMES ON THE RADIO
ZODIACAL LIGHT
THE FACE OF THE SUN
HAIR
MAX JACOB’S LEATHER COAT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GRIEF
JACK KEROUAC BRINGS HIS MOTHER TO THE MEXICAN BORDER, 1957
SATELLITE
TWO HAWK SKIES IN MINNESOTA
THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS, NORTHERN COLORADO
THE DANCE
I ONCE KNEW THE BLACK RIDER
HUNCH BACK
A PERIOD OF ASHES
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LOVE
THE RICHES
Despre autor
Ray Gonzalez is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including six from BOA Editions:
The Heat of Arrivals (1997 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award),
Cabato Sentora (2000 Minnesota Book Award Finalist),
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (2003 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry),
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems (2005),
Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (2009), and
Beautiful Wall (2015). The University of Arizona Press has published eight of his books, including
Turtle Pictures (Arizona, 2000), a mixed-genre text, which received the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in multiple editions of
The Best American Poetry (Scribners) and
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2000 (Pushcart Press). Gonzalez is also the author of three collections of essays and two collections of short stories, and the editor of twelve anthologies, most recently
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short Short Stories from the U.S. and
Latin America (W.W. Norton). He has served as Poetry Editor for
The Bloomsbury Review for thirty-five years and, in 1998, founded the poetry journal
LUNA, which received a Fund for Poetry grant for Excellence in Publishing. He was awarded a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Border Regional Library Association, and is currently a professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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