Alberto Rios, Author . Copper Canyon $14 (112p) ISBN 978-1-55659-173-0
In this latest poetry collection by Ríos, a veteran poet and story writer and professor of English at Arizona State University, the speaker is focuses squarely on childhood experiences and memories. In poems that are typically prosy ("I...
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Alberto Rios, Author . Copper Canyon $20 (117p) ISBN 978-1-55659-230-0
The latest from the prolific Rios (Capirotada
, etc.), poet laureate of the state of Arizona, hews closely and yet imaginatively to the life stories of its double protagonists: Clemente and Ventura (who may, or may not, be the poet's...
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Alberto Rios, Author Sheep Meadow Press $12.95 (94p) ISBN 978-0-935296-77-8
Here the cerebral and the earthy are vividly combined, and the resulting tension between reality and fantasy yields fresh and often powerful imagery. Deeply rooted in the physical, these poems posit sensuous experiencea strain of music, a kiss, the...
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Alberto Rios, Author University of New Mexico Press $29.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-8263-2070-4
Cultural transformation, and small-town life along the Mexico-Arizona border, are illuminated in this tender collection of stories by poet and novelist Ros (Whispering to Fool the Wind; The Iguana Killer). There is little sentimentality in these...
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Alberto Rios, Author University of New Mexico Press $19.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-8263-2093-3
A master of the coming-of-age story, R os is the author of several short story collections (The Iguana Killer, etc.). Fans of his fiction will recognize the origins of numerous stories in this short memoir of growing up in a small Arizona border...
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Alberto Rios. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (110p) ISBN 978-0-8101-3080-7
“Feeding the birds, by accident I spill the seed,” writes Rios (The Dangerous Shirt), Arizona’s first poet laureate, in the opening lines of his 13th volume. Pigeons flood the scene, and suddenly the average becomes the extraordinary. For Rios, the...
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Alberto Rios, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $10.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0745-6
The treats of the title are the gingerbread delights that Mexican adults imagine are beloved by their children because the kids laugh at the sight of the chubby cookies lined up on a baker's tray. Such misconceptions are at the heart of this second...
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Alberto Rios, Author, Alberto Alvaro Ra-Os, Author University of New Mexico Press $18.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-8263-2094-0
A master of the coming-of-age story, R os is the author of several short story collections (The Iguana Killer, etc.). Fans of his fiction will recognize the origins of numerous stories in this short memoir of growing up in a small Arizona border...
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Alberto Rios, Author, Alberto Ra-Os, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55659-298-0
Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Ríos (The Theater of Night
) includes something for almost everyone. A plethora of quiet poems explore such basic...
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Alberto Ríos. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-55659-587-5
This striking 12th collection from Ríos (A Small Story About the Sky) draws its energy from the space between active resistance and sturdy persistence. “I will wait, said the wood, and it did,” begins one poem, while this patience is transformed...
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