“Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair.” — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail.… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“I look through the window at the huge valley lit up with different colors. The town is cradled by the dark mountains. From afar… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila” — Rigoberto González Copy Share Image
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do,… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
