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When, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
An introduction to the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.”
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the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I imagined.
the universe
blacker and more beautiful than
I imagined.
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Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of California, Riverside and graduate degrees from University of California, Davis and Arizona State University. He is the author of To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems Selected and New (2023), The Book of Ruin (2019), Unpeopled Eden (2013), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, and Black Blossoms... Read More
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