Mise-en-scène (live)
Rigoberto González reading Mise-en-scène live at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005.
Rigoberto González
The Man Who Gives You Nightmares (live)
Rigoberto González reading The Man Who Gives You Nightmares live at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005.
Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls (live)
Rigoberto González reading Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls live at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005.
Black Blossoms (live)
Rigoberto González reading Black Blossoms live at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005.
Rigoberto González at Bowdoin College
Rigoberto González recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, December 6, 2005.
The Mortician’s Mortician
You have always appreciated the beauty of supine men: torsos suppressing the fat and keeping the configuration of muscle; faces that flatten tissue into Roman stone. The last time you straddled your lover you wished for clay instead of flesh, not to mold but to fire in the kiln and match the brown of your […]
Doppelgänger (for Omaira Sánchez)
There once lived a girl who sang and danced even in times of sorrow. She didn’t answer to your name, but before her death she wore your face, taupe bequeathed to her as well. Like you, she inherited her small place. Such expediency of selection: the pasty stars collapsing to allow the other constellations room […]
Danza Macabre
Your wreath declares: I celebrate my coffin because it keeps me longer than my mother. Wood polished to patience as the tantrum of your body wastes no time to soften. As your grudges forgive themselves, as your indiscretions uproot from their hiding places to crawl away like larvae, as the stones of your gossip tumble […]