Turtle Pictures
By: Ray González.
Series: Camino del sol
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tucson, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Poetry.; Turtles -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "Adopting the turtle as a metaphor for the Native American origins of border culture, Gonzalez frames this multitextured individual vision until it becomes a universal portrait of American life: a slow, ancient creature morphing into one of voracious rapidity. In surrealistic images, he hammers out a political statement from language that takes on a special urgency.

Walking a fine line between lyricism and polemic he calls on Mexican Americans to return to their roots in order to avoid being swept up in American material culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: First shell; title: Chicano tortuga party; title: Second shell; title: Tortuga borders; title: Third shell; title: Year of the tortuga egg.