To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New Style:Paperback “At once erudite and colloquial”

“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker)

an American orphan adopted by the Shin family

she unravels the sticky threads of colonialism with poems that exact lyrical acts of self-surgery

but to take back the throne

summer heat

To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New Style:Paperback “At once erudite and colloquial”By Rigoberto Gonzlez The capstone of a quarter century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto Gonzalez since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work. Mirroring Gonzalezs 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