"Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Rios includes something for almost everyone."—Publishers Weekly"Wonderful
Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems—set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona—are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, betw
“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Rios presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Rios, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Rios’s project [is] indebted to magic real
“Rios writes in a serenely clear manner.”—The New York Times Book Review“Rios’ verse inhabits a country of his own making, sometimes political, often personal, with the familiarity and pungency of an
A memoir of the author's childhood in 1950s Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico shares his experiences growing up in an era when the border was open and friends passed freely from country to country.
