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Turtle Pictures

Turtle Pictures Softcover - 2000

by GONZALEZ, Ray

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Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2000. Softcover. Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Tall octavo. 178pp. Private library blindstamp on title page else fine in glossy pictorial wrappers.
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  • Title Turtle Pictures
  • Author GONZALEZ, Ray
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First printing,
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 188
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The University of Arizona Press, Tucson
  • Date 2000
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 468783
  • ISBN 9780816519668 / 0816519668
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.13 x 0.47 in (22.91 x 15.57 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexican Americans, Turtles
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99006584
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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From the jacket flap

The rhythm of vision, the rhythm of dream, the rhythm of voices saturating the hot southwestern landscape. These are the rhythms of Ray Gonzalez, the haunting incantations of "Turtle Pictures," Gonzalez has forged a new Chicano manifesto, a cultural memoir that traces both his personal journey and the communal journey that Mexican Americans have traveled throughout this century, across this land. He interweaves lyrical poetry, prose poems, short fiction, and nonfiction commentary into a lush cacophony that traces the evolution of today's politically charged Chicano voices from the deafening silence of their ancestors. Adopting the turtle as a metaphor for the Native American origins of border culture, Gonzalez frames this multitextured individual vision until it becomes a universal portrait of American life: a slow, ancient creature morphing into one of voracious rapidity. In wild and challenging surrealistic images, he hammers out a political statement from language that takes on a special urgency. Walking a fine line between lyricism and polemic, and succeeding where others have stumbled, he calls on Mexican Americans to return to their roots in order to avoid being swept up in American material culture. "Turtle Pictures" is a complex body of work by a poet totally in tune with the spirit and nuances of language, imbued with a deep sense of craft and literary tradition. It invites readers to revel in its richness and vitality, to be caught up in its chantlike spirit, to luxuriate in its hauntingly beautiful passages. It is a work to devour, to savor, to return to, for it speaks with all the rhythms of the soul.

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  • Library Journal, 02/15/2000, Page 161
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/07/2000, Page 71

About the author

Ray Gonzalez is a professor of literature at the University of Minnesota, he is the author of 14 books and has also edited more than a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction and is the recipient of the Carr P. Collins/Texas Institute of Letters Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Latino Heritage Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.

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