Research Catalog

Title

The heat of arrivals / poems by Ray Gonzalez.

Author

González, Ray.

Publication

Brockport, NY : BOA Editions, 1996.

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Details

Description

104 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In this, his fifth collection of poetry, Ray Gonzalez takes the reader to the heart of the Chicano and American Southwest experience. His is the voice of desert flowers, hardscrabble border cities, scorpions, snakes, adobes, petroglyophs, arroyos and mesas. The poems tell the stories of native peoples, invading Westerners, and the Chicano fathers and gradfathers who have long been silent.

Contents

• Watching a Film About Van Gogh on Christmas Eve -- Black Ink Drawings -- The Eagles in the Ashes -- Watering My Chinese Elm -- Pollen Paintings -- In the Time of the Scorpion -- Salamander -- Song for the Lizard Painted on the Plate -- Indian Pertroglyphs, Red Desert, Wyoming -- The Mummy in the Witte Museum -- The Olmec Hunchback -- Black Stone Sculpture -- In Peru, the Quechans Have a Thousand Words for Potato -- Sueno De Mexico -- Homage to Lucian Blaga -- The Sustenance -- Black Adobe -- Eating the Snake -- The Blue Snake -- The Rattle -- The Snake in Winter -- I Knew Who I Was Before I Dreamed of the Snake -- Rattlesnake Dance, Coronado Hills, 1966 -- Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley -- Snakes as a Gift for My Aching Shoulder -- The Grandfather -- Snakeskin -- The Past -- Memory of the Hand -- The Cathedral of My Father -- How? -- Four Times the Feast -- Without -- Odes to the Family of Spiders -- Never -- Fathers -- The Energy of Clay --
• The Heat of Arrivals -- Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo -- The Toy -- Late Night Moon -- Years Later -- The Magnets -- Was Federico Garcia Lorca Lonely in New York? -- These Days -- "I Haven't Any Bread and Will Live a Long Life" -- Easter Sunday 1988, the Grand Canyon, Arizona -- The Owl's Mask.

ISBN

• 1880238381 (hardback) :
• 188023839X (paper)

LCCN

96083947

OCLC

35960496

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries