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González, Rigoberto.

Black blossoms / Rigoberto González.

New York : Four Way Books, 2011.

62 pages ; 23 cm

Black Blossoms offers a sustained exploration into the private lives of working class women of color and their difficult journeys. In surreal fairytales and magical biographies, Black Blossoms travels the U.S. and abroad: a daughter in Baja California tends to her sick father and watches for "the prince in his storybook tights"; "The Unsung Story of the Invisible Woman" in Phoenix, Arizona; the infamous New England spinster Lizzie Borden. A follow-up to Gonzalez's Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (which recounted male lives), Black Blossoms interweaves sex, death and violence: the tragedies of loving and losing.

Poetry.

Poems.

Machine generated contents note: Mundo de Mujeres -- Weimar -- Black Blossoms -- Mise-en-scene -- The Unsung Story of the Invisible Woman -- Weeping Icons -- Blizzard -- Dead Woman's Jewelry at an Estate Sale -- The Ballad of Lucila la Luciernaga -- The Girl with No Hands -- The Beauty of Guanajuato -- Thinking Stones -- Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego -- Widow -- Floreo -- Frida's Wound -- Floriuno: Orquideas -- Floridos: Cruz de Sal -- Floritres: Santuario -- Floricuatro: Baby's Breath -- Floricinco: Doppelgdnger -- Floriseis: Sleeping Murders -- Florisiete: Fear of Shadow Puppets -- Floriocho: Los Disfraces de Frida -- Florinueve: Death by Morning Glory -- Floridiez -- Vespertine -- The Mortician Poems -- The Mortician's Scar -- The Mortician's Bride Says I'm Yours -- The Mortician's Mother-in-Law Says Goodbye -- The Mortician's Daughter Dies Each Night -- The Mortician's Mother Returns.

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