Wordsmith Mark Gonzales Asks Us to Wage Beauty Amid Terror in New Book
Updated: 5 days ago
A better world begins with a better story for Mark Gonzales. The acclaimed poet, teacher, and writer has traveled the globe's five continents over the years witnessing the trauma of displacement and the human spirit of survival that defies against all odds. These experiences are folded into the pages of his new book In Times of Terror, Wage Beauty. Gonzales finely crafts prose that reads like a manifesto for the wounded warriors of the world. An elder in the making, he subversively sculpts ideas that ask us to consider anew what we thought we knew about power, language, values and healing on both an individual level as well as a collective one inherited through generations.
Read our interview on my latest OC Weekly Heard Mentality Blog post:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2015/04/wordsmith_mark_gonzales.php