Ray Gonzalez
Ray Gonzalez is the author of numerous books of poetry including The Heat of Arrivals, The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande, and Soul Over Lightning. He is the recipient of many awards including the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Book Award, the Latino Heritage Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. He lives in Farmington, Minnesota, and is a professor of literature at the University of Minnesota.
The Religion of Hands
Prose Poems and Flash Fictions
The Underground Heart
A Return to a Hidden Landscape
The Ghost of John Wayne
and Other Stories
Soul Over Lightning
- Copyright year: 2014
Feel Puma
Poems
In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation--with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered.
- Copyright year: 2020
Cutting the Wire
Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2018
Suggest Paradise
Poems
- Copyright year: 2023
Turtle Pictures
The rhythm of vision, the rhythm of dream, the rhythm of voices saturating the hot southwestern landscape. These are the rhythms of Ray Gonzalez, the haunting incantations of Turtle Pictures.
Gonzalez has forged a new Chicano manifesto, a cultural memoir that traces both his personal journey and the communal journey that ...
- Copyright year: 2000