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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Cool Auditor

Cool Auditor

Gonzalez, Ray

Paperback

PhilosophyHumorGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1934414298
ISBN13: 9781934414293
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Cool Auditor features Ray Gonzalez's particular brand of magical realism. His vision of the natural world, human relationships, and the difficulties of language reveals itself in memorable and surprising ways in every poem. Loose and circumfluent, this collection of prose poems employs rich imagery and repetition of phrase and sound to create a seemingly-effortless incantatory power. Humor also plays a large role in these prose poems. His rollicking poem Affordable Aphorisms features many bright, humorous insights, including If you had a normal childhood, your biographers will label it The Age of Reason. and To exile yourself in writing is to wear the wrong deodorant for years. However, this levity is always counter-balanced by his deep empathy with his subjects, with animals, humans, and their surroundings. Ray Gonzalez's poetry reminds us that the mysteries of the everyday may not be solved, but through the careful use of syllable and silence they might reveal, if only momentarily, their totemic power.

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