University of Wisconsin Press, 2019 Paper: 978-0-299-29254-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-29253-9 | Cloth: 978-0-299-29250-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3557.O4695Z46 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rigoberto González is the author of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including the memoirs What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth and Butterfly Boy, winner of the American Book Award. He is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers magazine, serves on the board of trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and is a professor of English at Rutgers–Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
REVIEWS
The author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
"An unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young immigrant gay poet. These brief, passionate chapters are filled with rare courage, raw honesty, and the uncommon beauty of a life spent yearning for consolation and hope. Absolutely arresting."—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
"A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it."—Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour
TABLE OF CONTENTS
acknowledgments
allegory
I. Leaving the Motherland, Mother Leaving Me
duty
piedrita
potato
zacapu
piedrita
jugete
trash
lift
witch
piedrita
fire
x-mas
crayon
note i
crooked
piedrita
biology
wicked
dream
piedrita
glove
migra
II. Unsettled Independence
invisible
piedrita
tongue
insomnia
note ii
nightshift
x\u00f3chitl
piedrita
voice
reprimand
martini
III. In Search of Paradise
station
piedrita
kill
outcast
eye
kite
clown
piedrita
tether
papi
godiva
piedrita
IV. Body Cravings
love
empty
piedrita
sketch
rain
chi
piedrita
ghosts
pseudonym
piedrita
questions
note iii
piedrita
haughty
extraction
bleed
voracious
piedrita
forest
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2019 Paper: 978-0-299-29254-6 eISBN: 978-0-299-29253-9 Cloth: 978-0-299-29250-8
In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rigoberto González is the author of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including the memoirs What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth and Butterfly Boy, winner of the American Book Award. He is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers magazine, serves on the board of trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and is a professor of English at Rutgers–Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
REVIEWS
The author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
"An unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young immigrant gay poet. These brief, passionate chapters are filled with rare courage, raw honesty, and the uncommon beauty of a life spent yearning for consolation and hope. Absolutely arresting."—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
"A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it."—Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour
TABLE OF CONTENTS
acknowledgments
allegory
I. Leaving the Motherland, Mother Leaving Me
duty
piedrita
potato
zacapu
piedrita
jugete
trash
lift
witch
piedrita
fire
x-mas
crayon
note i
crooked
piedrita
biology
wicked
dream
piedrita
glove
migra
II. Unsettled Independence
invisible
piedrita
tongue
insomnia
note ii
nightshift
x\u00f3chitl
piedrita
voice
reprimand
martini
III. In Search of Paradise
station
piedrita
kill
outcast
eye
kite
clown
piedrita
tether
papi
godiva
piedrita
IV. Body Cravings
love
empty
piedrita
sketch
rain
chi
piedrita
ghosts
pseudonym
piedrita
questions
note iii
piedrita
haughty
extraction
bleed
voracious
piedrita
forest
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