Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American poet.Quinn Moreland, Impose Magazine, 2019, (ALMOST) A TO Z WITH MIRA GONZALEZ, Retrieved September 23, 2019Anisse 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 Spencer Madsen of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013.Angela Almeida, December 20th, 2012, NYU Local, NYU Students Collaborate To Create Publishing House, Kool A.D. And Tao Lin Weigh In, Accessed July 15, 2014Clare Swanson, March 13, 2014, Columbia Journalist, Independent publisher goes against the ebook tide , Accessed July 15, 2013, "...first title, a collection of poems by Los Angeles writer Mira Gonzalez..." According to Liza Darwin in Nylon 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."Liza Darwin (reviewer), January 30, 2014, Nylon magazine, I will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, Accessed July 15, 2014 She has been published in magazines including Vice, Hobart, and Muumuu House. In 2015, Gonzalez and Tao Lin released Selected Tweets, a collaborative double-book featuring selections from three of her Twitter accounts, as well as visual art and "extras".EMMA KOLCHIN-MILLER, Spectator Staff Writer, April 30, 2015, Columbia Spectator, 'Selected Tweets' a new-age narrative, Retrieved June 26, 2015 In 2015, the singer Lily Allen 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, Mira Gonzalez's poems are quietly defining texts of the digital era: The young poet has become unwittingly involved in a social media stir about Lily Allen’s marriage. What's all the fuss about?, Retrieved September 23, 2019 Gonzalez has described her writing process as follows:
She is from Los Angeles, California.
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 Tao Lin as a writer with a prolific and intense social media presence. In 2014 the collection was a finalist for The Believer magazine's Poetry Award. Flavorwire, an online culture magazine, named Gonzalez one of "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013".
Reviews In Rumpus magazine, Emily Bludworth de Barrios wrote that i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together is about "disconnected sex, anxiety, loneliness, drugs, and depression" and is "cool, effervescent, and clear".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 Another review said the book had "brutal honesty and minimalist vocabulary and diction." A review in Economy magazine said the poems had a "studied laboriousness" that was "weirdly compelling."Luke A. Fidler, January 17, 2014, The Economy Magazine, I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together, Mira Gonzalez, Accessed July 15, 2014 Filmmaker and screenwriter Lena Dunham wrote in The Guardian that the book was one of her favorites of 2014, and that it brings "experimental poetry into the internet age with dark, distinctly female riffs on ambition, depression and love."Lena Dunham, 29 November 2014, The Guardian, Writers pick the best books of 2014: part one, Retrieved December 12, 2014 In The Guardian, Emma-Lee Moss wrote that Gonzalez's persona is "radical in its contradictions – her voice is both punk and disinterested, both promiscuous and not particularly sexual." The New Inquiry called Gonzalez's poetry "a paragon of flat writing and ambivalence toward emotion" that "conjures an affectively messy universe."
Personal life Gonzalez is the granddaughter of costume designer Rosanna Norton, daughter of visual artist Lora Norton, and the stepdaughter of Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski. Her mother, stepfather and brother Milo are members of the Chuck Dukowski Sextet.
References
External links Mira Gonzalez's Twitter account Mira Gonzalez at Thought Catalog Sorry House website