"In one house my grandfather lay dying, the smell of approaching mud keeping him alive." Ray Gonzalez, whose new poetry collection, Beautiful Wall (BOA Editions, 2015), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads a selection of poems at Arizona State University in 2012.
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