González, R. - OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS - Paperback BLACK & GOLD renewal and healing love

renewal and healing love

visiting assistant of church history at Pacific Lutheran University

” escorts his mink-wearing mother to the funeral of her best friend

and toward objects that return us to ourselves

González, R. - OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS - Paperback BLACK & GOLD renewal and healing loveRigoberto Gonzlez, MFA Author "While the tension that never leaves these poems is, on the surface, erotic, what lies beneath the sensual energy is an awareness that sex, as the articulation of love, is tainted by our notions of how pure love should be. It's Gonzalez's lyricism that joins the physical and the ideal, and demonstrates that the impulse to speak is a form of the impulse to touch. Gonzalez's honesty is itself a kind of poetry: there is an