Ray Gonzalezis the author of numerous books of poetry including The Heat of Arrivals, The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande, and Soul Over Lightning. He is the recipient of many awards including the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Book Award, the Latino Heritage Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. He lives in Farmington, Minnesota, and is a professor of literature at the University of Minnesota.

Other poems by Ray Gonzalez in Verse Daily:
December 21, 2019:   "Ears Full of Thorns" "The music of silence was composed..."
October 11, 2015:   "A Judge Orders The Opening of Federico Garcí Lorca's Grave" "Leave the dead alone...."
January 7, 2010:   "Paul Celan's Ashes" "Here is the hand in its shade of absolute..."
December 22, 2009:   "Beginning with Two Lines from Kenneth Rexroth" "I see the unwritten books, the unrecorded experiments, the unpainted..."

Books by Ray Gonzalez:

Other poems on the web by Ray Gonzalez:
"The Language of Sunlight, 1956"
Four poems
"What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue"
Fifteen poems
Four poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Bob Dylan in El Paso, 1963"
Two poems
"Letter to Ray from Livermore"

About Feel Puma:

"Part mystic, part maestro—all master of language—Gonzalez has illuminated the sacredness of the world we stumble through. Feel Puma is steeped in Gonzalez's voracious intellect—his kaleidoscopic knowledge of literature and history—but this book is beautifully steeled by his uncanny ability to see what no one else can."
—Alex Lemon

"Ray Gonzalez knows how to draw a poem back and forth like a bird makes a calligraphy of the air or a rattlesnake spirals the dust. He knows how to dream a poem so real it feels like truth is a vortex and all the lines are drawing you into this other, deeper world he has called forth."
—Kathryn Nuernberger

"Gonzalez is a serious and seriously accomplished poet whose meditations on history—the history of literature, violence, art, our nation—are profound, intelligent, and moving. He is also a poet deeply attuned to the vast literary conversation around him, a conversation that moves and transforms with history, a conversation that lives in these poems."
—Kevin Prufer