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Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems
Finalist:Minnesota Book Award -Poetry (2006)
Thirty new poems and ample selections from six of Gonzalez's previous poetry books.
Book Details
- Publisher: BOA Editions
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2005
- Pages: 205
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.15in - 6.02in - 0.52in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9781929918706
- Categories: • American - Hispanic & Latino• American - Hispanic & Latino• American - General
About the Author
Ray Gonzalez has authored numerous books of poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, and edited twelve anthologies. He is poetry editor for The Bloomsbury Review, and founding editor of the poetry journal Luna. He is a full professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Praise for this book
Selected poems from six previous books are united with 30 new poems in a collection that showcases Gonzalez's unique voice and way of seeing the world. His early poems revolve around southwestern scenes and reveal the foundations of his symbolism. Consideration is an apt word to include in the title of this collection, since it is Gonzalez's thoughtful consideration of a variety of subjects (often revolving around nature and lived experience) that leads to broader discovery for both poet and reader. From a hawk's predatory actions to a grandfather on a runaway train, Gonzalez has a special talent for stirring real life into his personal mythology like a sorcerer blending seemingly disparate elements into a magical concoction. Gonzalez is a considerable poetic voice, a skilled wordsmith who is able to shift from literal landscapes to the land of abstraction, distilling objects to meaningful essence, events to lyrical flow, and words into dreamspeak in a surprisingly cohesive and surrealistic way. Janet St. John