The underground heart
Subtitle: a return to a hidden landscape : essays
By: by Ray Gonzalez.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: González, Ray -- Homes and haunts -- Texas; González, Ray -- Homes and haunts -- New Mexico; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Mexican American authors -- Biography; Mexican American families; New Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Texas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Southwestern States -- Social conditions; New Mexico -- Social conditions; Texas -- Social conditions
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Returning home after a long absence is not always easy. For Ray Gonzalaz, it is more than a visit; it is a journey to the underground heart.".

"He has lived in other parts of the country for more than twenty years, but this award-winning poet now returns to the desert Southwest - a native son playing tourist - in order to unearth the hidden landscapes of family and race. As Gonzalez drives the highways of New Mexico and west Texas, he shows us a border culture rejuvenated by tourist and trade dollars, one that will surprise readers for whom the border means only illegal immigration, NAFTA, and the drug trade.".

"Played out against a soundtrack of the Allman Brothers and The Doors, The Underground Heart takes readers on a trip through a seemingly barren landscape that teems with life and stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The return; title: The border is open; title: Tortas locas; title: Rest stop; title: Millennium tour; title: El mercado; title: The general on the border; title: The death of the poet; title: Ten crows; title: Twelve apostles; title: The walls of San Antonio; title: Which of my hands on the pictographs?; title: The underground heart; title: Hazardous cargo; title: The border is closed; title: Works by Ray Gonzalez.