The Heat of Arrivals

Ray Gonzales takes the reader to the heart of the Chicano/American Southwest experience. His is the voice of the desert flowers, hardscrabble border cities, the scorpion, the snake, adobes, petroglyphs, arroyos, and mesas. The poems tell the stories of Native peoples and invading Westerners and the Chicano fathers and grandfathers who have long been silent.