Suggest Paradise

Ray Gonzalez is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Feel Puma: Poems (UNM Press), 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 emeritus of literature and creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

Part One The Trees Offering Birds Two Hands at San Elizario Gift for a Believer The Train The Cane Suggest Paradise Photographs of the Dead The Silence of Fernando Pessoa The Error of Sleep Mornings Broken Boy Soldier Conversion Serpent Words T-Shirt Shop on Santa Fe Street Stack of Tortillas The Language of Sunlight, 1956 One Pinto Bean Night in the Border Town Fear of Dying The Coins Solar Eclipse Totality, 2017 Part Two Pueblo Dancers, Santo Domingo, New Mexico, 2004 Quietly Look Back The Women The Silence of Aime Cesaire The Hidden Notebook The Sparrows, 1978 The Death of Walt Whitman Ancient Aliens Picnic Miss Atomic Bomb Robert Oppenheimer's Chair Still There The Silence of Federico Garcia Lorca Rumins The Message Body of Rags / International Bridge between the United States and Mexico The Dancer The Alligators Playing Poker with Raymond Carver, 1977 Homage to the Father Last Night La Frontera Midnight Rider River Part Three The Poem of One Hundred Tongues Snap Meditation Near Hatch, New Mexico Table and Lamp Fat Saint No One Moved Ears Full of Thorns Ten below Zero, Country Road, Northfield, Minnesota Three Snowy Owls El Paso Massacre, August 3, 2019 First Anniversary, El Paso Massacre "What a Man Wants Is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue" The Bend at the Rio Grande Acknowledgments

This is a collection of making and memory--familial, literary, historical.--Rebecca Morgan Frank, Harriet Books