Autobiography of My Hungers

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-299-29254-6
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 133 g

Reihe: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

González, Rigoberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.