Autobiography of My Hungers, Paperback/Rigoberto Gonzalez

In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto Gonz lez 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 Gonz lez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. About the Author: Rigoberto Gonz lez 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.