{"product_id":"beautiful-wall-paperback-1","title":"Beautiful Wall - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRay Gonzalez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Wall \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on a profound journey through the deserts of the 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 past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay Gonzalez \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of fifteen books of poetry. The recipient of numerous awards, including a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Border Regional Library Association, he is a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Gonzalez is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including six from BOA Editions: \u003ci\u003eThe Heat of Arrivals\u003c\/i\u003e (1997 PEN\/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award), \u003ci\u003eCabato Sentora\u003c\/i\u003e (2000 Minnesota Book Award Finalist), \u003ci\u003eThe Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande\u003c\/i\u003e (2003 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry), \u003ci\u003eConsideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eCool Auditor: Prose Poems (2009)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Wall\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). The University of Arizona Press has published eight of his books, including \u003ci\u003eTurtle Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e (Arizona, 2000), a mixed-genre text, which received the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in multiple editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Scribners) and \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2000\u003c\/i\u003e (Pushcart Press). Gonzalez is also the author of three collections of essays and two collections of short stories, and the editor of twelve anthologies, most recently \u003ci\u003eSudden Fiction Latino: Short Short Stories from the U.S.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLatin America\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton). He has served as Poetry Editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e for thirty-five years and, in 1998, founded the poetry journal \u003ci\u003eLUNA\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Fund for Poetry grant for Excellence in Publishing. He was awarded a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Border Regional Library Association, and is currently a professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Minnesota Book Award (2016)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351646224633,"sku":"9781938160837","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NjNuUzlhYmVTenIrRHZnRkNTWmMrZz09_7523113f-b159-4023-872d-ff805c0737e5.webp?v=1769800702","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/beautiful-wall-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}