{"product_id":"heat-of-arrivals","title":"Heat of Arrivals","description":"\u003cp\u003eRay Gonzalez's fifth collection of poetry takes the reader to the heart of the Chicano\/American Southwest experience. His is the voice of the desert flowers, hardscrabble border cities, scorpions, snakes, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Grandfather \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The grandfather goes down to the lanterns\u003cbr\u003e and lights the stars.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He takes his bottle and recalls the rattler\u003cbr\u003e he killed to make way for the family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The garndfather shaves in the morning,\u003cbr\u003e cuts his throat at night. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The blossom of what he knows\u003cbr\u003e spills against the years of healing,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e of going down\u003cbr\u003e to the railroad lanterns\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e to light his aching arms and legs\u003cbr\u003e with the ointment of his scars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ©BOA Editions, Ltd 1996\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-38-1\u003cbr\u003e Price: $20.00\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996\u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-39-x\u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802194821,"sku":"1-880238-39-x","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THEHEATOFARRIVALS.jpg?v=1527683271","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/heat-of-arrivals","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}