"I unmourn the murdered sissy of my youth,
the sack of discarded pigtails and puckered lips that
burst like an appendix. I hold my scar for the man
who’ll split it open with his gorgeous thumbs, who with his
teeth will liberate the pin-pierced mariposa of my tongue."
-- excerpt from the poem "Of Despots and Deities” by Rigoberto González. Gorgeous writing throughout this beautiful poetry book, Other Fugitives and Other Strangers.
--my book review in today's El Paso Times.
Read some poems from the book on the Tupelo Press website and Poetry Daily.
3 comments:
Now that I've found you...I can never think of something acadmiky
too say. I like your articles/blog/take on stuff...
And realize I'm every English major and Linguist nightmare).
So as always I'll end this with a quote:
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher
academiky
I have to read this book this upcoming summer!
Wow! Great!
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