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.

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Faith Run

The University of Arizona Press
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Memory Fever

The University of Arizona Press
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Renaming the Earth

Personal Essays

The University of Arizona Press
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The Religion of Hands

Prose Poems and Flash Fictions

The University of Arizona Press
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Turtle Pictures

The University of Arizona Press
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The Underground Heart

A Return to a Hidden Landscape

The University of Arizona Press
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The Ghost of John Wayne

and Other Stories

The University of Arizona Press
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Soul Over Lightning

The University of Arizona Press

In this collection, which the poet calls his “rebirth in the search for home,” Ray Gonzalez expresses the gentle, humble intelligence that has made him a leading voice in Latino letters. He shares with the reader the voice of a grounded soul searcher who has passed through middle age and still vibrates with passion for the world. Soul Over Lightning lifts spirits and yet offers a timeless search for home and truth.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Turtle Pictures

The University of Arizona Press

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
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