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Autobiography of My Hungers
Rigoberto González, 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 ar
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Hardcover
,
128 pages
Published
May 6th 2013
by University of Wisconsin Press
(first published April 1st 2013)
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A beautifully written series of very short observations of a Mexican-American youth. Gonzalez grew up to be a gay poet, and this work is characterized by both the anguish that he felt not being accepted and the care with imagery and language of a poet. Though his sense of estrangement is sad, we also see as we read how that very thing gave him the necessary distance to see everything with an amazing clarity. Intense and beautiful.
Here is a series of unforgettable one-page short stories, vignettes and prose poems arranged chronologically to form a selective memoir of the author's life. There is much passion in his work, and you will remember one or two favorite chapters for a long time. Here is a sentence that sticks with me, that of the moment when a father realizes his son is irretrievably gay: "The baseball, full of manly rage, came charging at my chest, striking my sternum with a thud that yanked me out of daydream an
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Rigoberto Gonzalez is a very careful wordsmith. It makes sense, since he is also a poet. In this small collection of vignettes, he tells his stories through the lens of hunger - hunger for home, for his dead parents, for lovers, for food. Beautifully written.
Deeply moving vignettes. Passionate description. He exposes his soul, heart and mind in these reflections of his life. Finds Beauty in the harshness of his environment. This is a book worth owning and reading again for its poetry on life.
A beautifully written and almost unbearably honest memoir from my friend, Rigo.
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