To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New

To the Boy Who Was Night is a comprehensive collection of Rigoberto González's poetry, spanning 25 years of his career.

This book articulates the course of a life through its poems, recalling leaving a beloved homeland, confronting masculinity and sexuality in new adulthood, imagining an earth devoid of human inhabitants, descending into the realm of ghosts, and returning to arrive at Dispatches from the Broken World.

The latest section ventures into foreign terrain - an autobiographical confrontation with isolation and the aging body.

This volume is González's boldest and most comprehensive work yet, showcasing his unique lyrical exploration and preserving a message that will "likely be a poem, surely an epitaph."