Research Catalog

Title

Beautiful wall : poems / by Ray Gonzalez.

Author

González, Ray.

Publication

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2015.

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Details

Description

140 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Takes us on a profound journey through the desert 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 familial past." -- Page [4] cover.

Series Statement

American poets continuum series ; no. 152

Uniform Title

• American poets continuum series v. 152.
• Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A judge orders the opening of Frederico García 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 Cortázar'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 -- Cadets at the Virginia Military Institute read Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg -- The war museum -- The destroyer of compasses -- My nephew's army helmet -- Three unfinished masterpieces -- Max Ernst with his collection of Kachinas, New York, 1936 -- René 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 -- Hunchback -- A period of ashes -- The theory and practice of love -- The riches.

ISBN

• 9781938160837 (softcover)
• 1938160835 (softcover)
• 9781938160844 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015019653

OCLC

904968359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library