{"product_id":"cabato-sentora","title":"Cabato Sentora","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his previous collections of poetry, Ray Gonzalez has traveled to the heart of the Southwestern and Mexican-American experience and emerged with poems of astonishing power. In \u003cem\u003eCabato Sentora\u003c\/em\u003e, his fifth, Gonzalez revisits the themes he explored in his previous book, \u003cem\u003eThe Heat of Arrivals\u003c\/em\u003e: the desert Southwest and its flowers and its scorpions; the search for self; and Gonzalez's own Chicano heritage and its often bitter history. Indeed, the book itself is dedicated to \"the silence of my father and grandfathers. For the language of their silence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eCabato Sentora\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this new collection, Ray Gonzalez locates the driven passion of poetry within his family, his ancestors, his people and their stories' root mysteries . . . \u003cem\u003eCabato Sentora\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a ramifying and fulfilling book.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWilliam Heyen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeyond Having \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, always, there is desire \u003cbr\u003elike the orange and banana changing\u003cbr\u003etexture on the kitchen shelf. \u003cbr\u003eTheir skins sink slowly into themselves.\u003cbr\u003eThere is the liquid of lust and thirst, \u003cbr\u003ean open gloss of choice and cutting, \u003cbr\u003ea lying down toward the wind, \u003cbr\u003ethe heaving you were warned about. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, soon, there is love like \u003cbr\u003eminiature spellings embedded in the shoulder,\u003cbr\u003ewaiting to be misspelled, washed, \u003cbr\u003ebrought back by perception that fades \u003cbr\u003ewith what moves below the arm, \u003cbr\u003ehinging on a doubt cried away. \u003cbr\u003eThere is the mistake of giving name \u003cbr\u003eto the prune, the print bitten off \u003cbr\u003eand covered over by black hair--\u003cbr\u003eits numbers kept secret, \u003cbr\u003elong strands in the tale of the carpet,\u003cbr\u003ethe pomegranate, the hundred ways \u003cbr\u003eof staying there. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, besides, there is danger of riding desire\u003cbr\u003euntil it carves you into its swollen throat,\u003cbr\u003esteel-cry of possession and the infinite blessing\u003cbr\u003eof fingers missing from the first time, \u003cbr\u003efingernails tracing the shape of the strawberry\u003cbr\u003eto memorize roughness without leaving. \u003cbr\u003eThere is the flavor and the understanding,\u003cbr\u003ea place to rest the eye after traveling, a force that binds you together \u003cbr\u003ewithout you knowing red marks \u003cbr\u003eon your back are places where wings\u003cbr\u003ewould have risen if you were an angel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45961772171493,"sku":"9781880238707","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":45961772204261,"sku":"9781880238708","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/CABATO_SENTORA.jpg?v=1527683194","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/cabato-sentora","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}