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To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New

To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New

González, Rigoberto

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1954245521
ISBN13: 9781954245525
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The capstone of a quarter-century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work. Mirroring González's personal trajectory, the arc of this work articulates the course of a life: these poems recall leaving a beloved homeland, confront masculinity and sexuality in new adulthood, imagine the earth devoid of human inhabitants, descend into the realm of ghosts, and return to arrive at Dispatches from the Broken World. This latest section ventures into foreign terrain -- an autobiographical confrontation with isolation and the aging body. His lyrical exploration, like the weather reports scrawled on ancient temple walls, will preserve this age-old message: likely a poem, surely an epitaph. To the Boy Who Was Night bears the fruit of 25 years of poetry, González's boldest and most comprehensive volume yet.

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