Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American

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.Anisse Gross, September 15, 2015, ''Publishers Weekly''
Four Questions for...Poet Mira Gonzalez
Retrieved September 23, 2019 Her first collection, ''i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together'', was published by

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of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013. According to Liza Darwin in ''

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'' magazine, Gonzalez is part of a "whole new crop of cool girl poets" whose work is "clever, totally unfiltered, and peppered with twisted insight and refreshing humor." She has been published in magazines including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 2015, Gonzalez and

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released ''Selected Tweets'', a collaborative double-book featuring selections from three of her

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accounts, as well as visual art and "extras". In 2015, the singer

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posted an image of her hand above Gonzalez's ''i will not be beautiful enough...'' book of poems, which led to speculation that the singer's marriage was on shaky ground.Emma Lee-Moss, 3 September 2015, ''The Guardian''
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Retrieved September 23, 2019, "......" Gonzalez has described her writing process as follows: She is from

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Awards

'' Dazed & Confused'' magazine chose ''i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together'' as its poetry book of the week, comparing Gonzalez to

as a writer with a prolific and intense

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presence. In 2014 the collection was a finalist for '' The Believer'' magazine's Poetry Award. ''

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'', an online culture magazine, named Gonzalez one of "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013".

Reviews

A review in ''Rumpus magazine'' described ''i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together'' as about "disconnected sex, anxiety, loneliness, drugs, and depression" but with "cool, effervescent, and clear" observations.EMILY BLUDWORTH DE BARRIOS (reviewer), July 6th, 2013, ''The Rumpus'' magazine
I WILL NEVER BE BEAUTIFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE US BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER BY MIRA GONZALEZ
Accessed July 15, 2014 In one poem, according to reviewer Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Gonzalez repeats a sequence of words for emphasis, a technique sometimes called anaphora, to emphasize emotion. A review described her writing as having "brutal honesty and minimalist vocabulary and diction." A review in ''Economy magazine'' described her poems as having a "studied laboriousness" which was "weirdly compelling." Filmmaker and screenwriter

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wrote in ''

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'' that the book was one of her favorites for 2014, and that it brings "experimental poetry into the internet age with dark, distinctly female riffs on ambition, depression and love." Reviewer Emma-Lee Moss in ''The Guardian'' wrote that Gonzalez's persona is "radical in its contradictions – her voice is both punk and disinterested, both promiscuous and not particularly sexual." ''

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'' called Gonzalez's poetry "a paragon of flat writing and ambivalence toward emotion" that "conjures an affectively messy universe."

Personal life

Gonzalez is the daughter of visual artist Lora Norton and the stepdaughter of Black Flag bassist

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. Her mother, stepfather and brother Milo are members of the Chuck Dukowski Sextet.

References

External links

Mira Gonzalez's Twitter accountMira Gonzalez at ''Thought Catalog''Sorry House website
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