Autobiography of My Hungers
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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.
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Rigoberto González. (2013). Autobiography of My Hungers. University of Wisconsin Press.
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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.
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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.
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March 18, 2013
Through a series of tiny, radiantly moving vignettes, award-winning memoirist and poet González (Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa), a first-generation Mexican-American, has created a memoir through the lens of his hungers—for food, motherland, recognition, acceptance, passion, and love. Interspersed among these short prose pieces are piedritas, which Gonzáles explains as the bits of debris that, as a child, he had to sort from dry beans before cooking “to be tossed at the conclusion of the cleaning.” With their complexity, gleam, texture, and strength, he thought them “much more interesting than the beans, which huddled in the bowl, boring as clones.” In this book, they are represented by poems that function like arias, interrupting the narrative to express pure feeling in the present tense. Piled one upon another, the stories and poems paint a kaleidoscopic, painfully truthful self-portrait, like the “dazzling forest museum” made of junk by an old woman that González stumbled across in a trip to Switzerland, “gathering bits and pieces of this and that in order to build a gallery of tiny gems, colorful and edible as gumdrops.” Immigrant and gay readers may experience release in the book’s agonizing familiarity; all readers will find it lusciously evocative.
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March 15, 2013
Sweet and sad but generally tender vignettes about a poet/professor's coming-of-age as a gay Mexican immigrant. Gonzalez (English/Rutgers-Newark; Mariposa Gown, 2012, etc.) revisits some of the same territory as his American Book Award-winning Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (2006), though this is not a flowing narrative but more like a scrapbook of short pieces, both prose and poetry, few of them longer than a page. As the title suggests, "hunger" provides the thematic thread, not only for food (his family was poor) and later for sex, but also for identity, connection and acceptance. "I was afraid of my hungry gay body," he writes, though he didn't realize his sexual orientation until his experiences with an early girlfriend made it obvious to her and to him. His father had mocked him because he was fat, gentle and nonathletic. A Christmas photo spurs memories of his impoverished upbringing that remind him of many others: "At the time of the photograph, I didn't notice the tree going hungry in the back, its plastic branches spaced apart like bones on a ribcage. The tinsel drooping like strings of saliva. An anemic rosary of Christmas lights. My brother and I knelt in front of the tree, our striped shirts compensating for the dearth of gifts beneath it." Later, he writes with writerly self-importance of his life as an author: " 'What do you write about?' he asked, and I answered, quite simplistically, 'Life, ' offering the man I was going to sleep with that night a bouquet of yellow flowers instead of thorns had I admitted, more truthfully, 'Death' or 'Violence' or 'Pain, ' as in the horrors that writers will inflict on people who ask for them." The literary sensibility speaks more broadly to the human condition, as the author relates the particularities of his own experience through shards of memory.COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Multi-award-winning poet Gonzalez (English, Rutgers-Newark, State Univ. of New Jersey) writes his second memoir, after Butterfly Boy: Memoirs of a Chicano Mariposa, through the lens of his hungers--appetite, yearning, desire, and want. This stirring and imaginative collection of vignettes extends from the author's childhood years, beginning shortly after his arrival in California from Mexico, and continuing through his move to New York. Whether describing a desire for new clothes to replace the tattered rags he and his immigrant family wear out of necessity, connection with his homeland, or a a lover, Gonzalez's stories are moving and often painful as he captures the feelings of isolation so common to both immigrants and gay men. At times, the narrative is punctuated by piedritas, short, poetic interludes of memory and raw emotion, which the author describes as pebbles sorted from the beans. These poems stand on their own, but they also give insight to the larger work. VERDICT This beautiful, unconventional memoir, infused with poetic language, places Gonzalez firmly in the top tier of American writers. Not only aficionados of memoir, poetry, and Latin American and gay literature but also general audiences will enjoy these stories and poems.--Mark Manivong, Lib. of Congress, Washington, DC
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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
xóchitl
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
piedritaforest
