Suggest Paradise

Winner of the 2024 Kempner Family Book Prize for Poetry given by the Philosophical Society of Texas

Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Ray Gonzalez returns to Texas and nearby New Mexico to meditate on love, literature, loss, and la línea in Suggest Paradise. The collection offers readers some of the richest and most complex poems that embody the Southwest and the borderlands, including a poignant ...