Black Blossoms [Paperback]

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 Gonzalezs Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (which recounted male lives), Black Blossoms interweaves sex, death and violence: the tragedies of loving and losing.

What is / misery now that the last spring / you will ever know has already been forgotten?

RIGOBERTO GONZ?LEZ is the author of two previous collections. He teaches at Rutgers University.

PART ONE: MUNDO DE MUJERES Weimar Black Blossoms Mise-en-sc?ne The Unsung Story of the Invisible Woman Weeping Icons Blizzard Dead Womans Jewelry at an Estate Sale The Ballad of Lucila la Luci?rnaga The Girl with No Hands The Beauty of Guanajuato Thinking of Stones Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego Widow PART TWO: FLOREO Fridas Wound Floriuno: Orqu?deas Florid?s: Cruz de Sal Floritr?s: Santuario Floricuatro: Babys Breath Floricinco: Doppelg?nger Floris?is: Sleeping Murders Florisiete: Fear of Shadow Puppets Floriocho: Los Disfraces de Frida Florinueve: Death by Morning Glory PART THREE: FLORIDEZ Vespertine PART FOUR: THE MORTICIAN POEMS The Morticians Scar The Morticians Bride Says Im Yours The Morticians Mother-in-Law Says Goodbye The Morticians Daughter Dies Each Night The Morticians Mother Returns The Morticians Goddaughter Versed in Lust