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Book SynopsisBorn and raised in El Paso, Texas, Ray Gonzalez returns to Texas and nearby New Mexico to meditate on love, literature, loss, and
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Suggest Paradise. The collection offers readers some of the richest and most complex poems that embody the Southwest and the borderlands.
Table of ContentsPart 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 García 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
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