González, R. - OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS - Paperback BLACK & GOLD Twenty-five distinguished professors from the

Twenty-five distinguished professors from the University of Portland share insights and anecdotes to reveal the philosophy that drives their work in a wide variety of disciplines

The notes talked about parties and practical jokes – a la MASH –  to let off steam

Wall Street Journal

" --Eric Foner

Planning an escape

González, R. - OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS - Paperback BLACK & GOLD Twenty-five distinguished professors from theRigoberto Gonzlez, MFA Author "While the tension that never leaves these poems is, on the surface, erotic, what lies beneath the sensual energy is an awareness that sex, as the articulation of love, is tainted by our notions of how pure love should be. It's Gonzalez's lyricism that joins the physical and the ideal, and demonstrates that the impulse to speak is a form of the impulse to touch. Gonzalez's honesty is itself a kind of poetry: there is an