by Ray Gonzalez
American Poets Continuum Series
Ray Gonzalez's fifth
collection of poetry takes the reader to the heart of the Chicano/American
Southwest experience. His is the voice of the desert flowers,
hardscrabble border cities, scorpions, snakes, adobes, petroglyphs,
arroyos and mesas. The poems tell the stories of native peoples
and invading Westerners, and the Chicano fathers and grandfathers
who have long been silent.
The Grandfather
The
grandfather goes down to the lanterns
and
lights the stars.
He
takes his bottle and recalls the rattler
he
killed to make way for the family.
The
garndfather shaves in the morning,
cuts
his throat at night.
The
blossom of what he knows
spills
against the years of healing,
of
going down
to
the railroad lanterns
to
light his aching arms and legs
with
the ointment of his scars.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 1996
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-38-1
Price: $20.00
Publishing Date: January 1996
Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-39-x
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1996
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