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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 are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms-even "the smallest biggest joys" help piece together a complex portrait of a gay man of color who at last defines himself by what he learns, not by what he yearns for.
Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle
"Told in a series of revealing vignettes and poems, González's Autobiography of my Hungers turns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete."-El Paso Times
"Through his provocative vignettes, González communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance."-Make/Shift
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: Feb 19th, 2019
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780299292546
- Categories: • Memoirs• LGBTQ+• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic & Latino Stu
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
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
"The compelling story of a life that routinely--necessarily--crosses borders of ethnic, socioeconomic, and sexual identities."--Pablo Miguel Martínez, author of Brazos, Carry Me
"Immigrant and gay readers may experience release in the book's agonizing familiarity; all readers will find it lusciously evocative."--Publishers Weekly
"A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it."--Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour