Ray Debra Gonzalez

Memory Fever (Camino del Sol)

For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability. He encountered discrimination in high school not only for being Latino but also for being a non-athlete in a school where sports were important. Like many young people, he found diversion in mus...

Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance

As we approach the new century, Latino poetry is in the midst of its most vital and productive period. Poetry by Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans has changed the course of contemporary American writing forever.And it has done this by emphasizing poetry as the sound of everyday l...

Muy Macho

From the Homeboy to the Latin Lover, America cherishes a host of images about Latino men, yet all are based on the belief in macho men, virile and brash, full of violence and testosterone. With the gender correctness of the 90s challenging all men to embrace a new masculinity, how do Latino men of t...

The Ghost of John Wayne: and Other Stories (Camino del Sol)

The vast Texas borderland is a place divided, a land of legends and lies, sanctification and sinfulness, history and amnesia, haunted by the ghosts of the oppressed and the forgotten, who still stir beneath the parched fields and shimmering blacktops. It is a realm filled with scorpion eaters and me...

Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers

Mirrors Beneath the Earth is an historic and unique collection of contemporary Chicano fiction: 31 stories depicting the richly varied experiences of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. Some, like Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, are already celebrated writers. The special strength of this an...

No Boundaries

An innovative and refreshing concept in poetry anthologies, No Boundaries is the first collection of contemporary prose poetry to present substantial selections from the works of well-known luminaries beside the prose of the latest firebrands. By offering ten poems by each poet, this collection allo...

The Heat of Arrivals (American Poets Continuum)

The Heat of Arrivals again reveals Ray Gonzales' talent as a storyteller and lyricist.

Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Writing

Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood

Touching the Fire

New Stories from the Southwest

New Stories from the Southwest

Turtle Pictures

Turtle Pictures