Red-inked Retablos

In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint. Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos, a moving memoir of human experience and thought. The collection offers an in-depth meditation on the development of gay Chicano literature and the responsibilities of the Chicana/o writer.

About the author

Rigoberto González is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose and is the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, and The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America. He is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine and a member of the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.

Product details

• Authors: Rigoberto Gonz¿z, Rigoberto Gonzaalez, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rigoberto González, GONZALEZ RIGOBERTO, Rigoberto Gonzlez
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9780816521357
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2135-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies