So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks: Poems

by Rigoberto González

An astonishing new talent, Rigoberto Gonz lez writes with a clarity of the senses that pulls the reader into a marvelous and unfamiliar world. The sidewalk preacher, the umbrella salesman, the nurse on the graveyard shift, the professional mourner-- all allow Gonz lez a clandestine glimpse of their lives. Crackling with the dry electricity of the desert and flashing with the brilliant colors of Mexico, Gonz lez's poems are rooted in the fertile soil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067983
• ISBN13: 9780252067983
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.3"