Beneath Bone
Volume of Poems
Manifest Press
2000

"liz gonzalez's Beneath Bone strikes to the core. It's fast and flawless voicings make a world where what we see and what we know amazingly converge. Welcome to the real thing." - Elizabeth Willis

"liz gonzalez writes with the hand of an assemblage artist and the voice of a Neo-Frida Kahlo and a re-invented Dolores del Rio. Her poems become performance pieces, fractured cinemas from dreams and day-to-day enlightenments. She paints the body, the face and the broken column of the self. The poems are lunar and prismatic; they move from abstract investigations of surface, being and impermanence and on to the journals of the erotic, meditations of absence and the nerve matters of death and desire." - Juan Felipe Herrera

"Her unique voice allows her to grapple with themes involving love, race, and womanhood without ever hitting a false note. liz gonzález is a fierce Chicana poet who deserves a huge following." - Renee Swindle

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Selected Anthologies:

"Confessions of a Pseudo Chicana." City of Los Angeles Latino Heritage Month Celebration 2007 Calendar and Cultural Guide. Poetry.

               

“Destiny,” Women on the Edge: Fiction by LA Women Writers. Ed. Samantha Dunn. New Milford: The Toby Press, 2005. Fiction.

“I Love Walking West with You,” Open Windows:An Anthology of Five Poetry in the Windows
Projects. Ed. Suzanne Lummis. Los Angeles: Arroyo Arts Collective, 2005. Poetry.

“September Reds,” So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets. Ed. Paul Suntup. Huntington Beach: Tebot Bach, 2003. Poetry

“Catholic Death,” Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Eds.Suzanne Lummis and Charles Webb. Los Angeles: Red Wind Books, 1995. Poetry.

Selected Poetry and Prose in Journals and Periodicals:

"The Mexican Jesus Sings Lead Tenor in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Choir." BorderSenses Literary Magazine (Fall 2007). Poetry.

“The Summer Before 9th Grade.” Cooweescoowee (Summer 2007). Poetry.

“Espiritu,” Heliotrope, Ed. Rane Arroyo (Winter 2004). Poetry.

“My Valentine,” Comet Magazine #4 (May 2003). Fiction.

“Tumbleweeds and Palm Trees.” Cider Press Review (Winter 2000). Poetry.

“And I Will Never Get Used,” “Parchment,” and “Salmonella.” Brújula<>Compass 33 (Fall 1999).
Poetry.

“Confessions of a Pseudo Chicana” and “On the Night of the Eclipse.” Luna (Spring 1999).
Poetry.

“Dear Harden: A Letter to Paris.” New Delta Review (Spring/Summer 1998). Poetry.

“Sleeping at the Bottom of Minnesota Street, Lincoln Heights.” LA Stories: Prose and Poetry.
Arroyo Arts Collective Newsletter (July/August, 1998). Memoir.

“378 S. Rancho Ave., Colton.” San Francisco Chronicle (June 1998). Memoir.

“One of My Stories.” Fabula Magazine for Women (December 1997). Memoir.

“ICU Hallucination.” Spillway (Fall/Winter 1997). Poetry.

“Exploring the Concept of Telling Him She's Okay.” One Eye Open: Czech Literary Journal (Fall/Winter 1997). Poetry.

“Air Partner.” Voices (Fall 1994). Poetry.

 

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