"Boldly playful, gymnastic and surreal."â€”Leslie Ullman, Kenyon Review

Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Ríos, Alberto

Poetry

NY: NORTON. 1990

"Boldly playful, gymnastic and surreal."? Leslie Ullman, Kenyon Review

United States

W.W.Norton&Company

Re-creates a time and place forgotten these days except by grandparents and elders. The stories in this book are part folklore, part oral history, but in full measure literary as they recollect family tales modified by time, telling, and now Rios's perspective.

The Curtain of Trees: Stories

Univ of New Mexico Pr

From the middle of the twentieth century comes the latest collection of stories by renowned Chicano writer Alberto Alvaro Rios. The Curtain of Trees re-creates a time and place largely forgotten these days except by grandparents and elders. The stories in this book are part folklore, part oral history, but in full measure literary as they recollect family tales modified by time, telling, and now Ros's graceful perspective. 
Set along the Arizona-Mexico border, these stories engage the gulf between Mexican and Chicano, aunt and nephew, sister and sister, sanity and madness. Sometimes the gulf cannot be spanned; sometimes it is nonexistent. The stories are about a land untouched by modernity, where the town crier dresses up as a bear to spread the news, where everybody takes care of the wandering boy named Gustavo, where family lineage means hospitable passage through a distant town. 
Like so many family stories told on long afternoons, the tales in The Curtain of Trees are authentic, touching, and fantastically unbelievable.

Whispering to Fool the Wind: Poems

NY 1982. Poetry. 8vo., 72pp. VG in worn DJ.

Whispering to fool the wind: Poems

The Sheep Meadow Press

Winner of the translation prize from the American Academy of Poets.

Sheep Meadow Press

A native of Nogales, Arizona, the author's language owes much to his mastery of English and memory of Spanish.

Five Indiscretions: A Book of Poems

The Lime Orchard Woman: Poems

"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar."The Washington Post
"Ríos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in impeccable metaphors, that revel in the ordinariness of morning coffee and the crackle of thunderous desert storms. In one sonnet, Ríos addresses injustice in the borderlands, capturing with mathematical precision the everyday struggles that many migrants face'The border is an equation in search of an equals sign.' A series of sonnets about desert flora abounds with fantastic, magical imagery'Bougainvilleas do not bloomthey bleed' and 'Apricots are eggs laid in trees by invisible golden hens.' Likewise, Ríos's bestiary sonnets overflow with inimitable similes, worthy of a book unto themselves'Minnows are where a river’s leg has fallen asleep' and 'Gnats are sneezes still flying around.' This robust volume is the perfect place to start for readers new to Ríos and a prize for seasoned fans."Booklist
In his thirteenth book, Alberto Rios casts an intense desert light on the rich stories unfolding along the Mexico-US border. Peppered with Spanish and touches of magical realism, ordinary life and its simple propsmorning showers, spilled birdseed, winter lemonsbecomes an exploration of mortality and humanity, and the many possibilities of how lives might yet be lived.
Mad Honey
Made from magnificent rhododendron, poisonous rhododendron, Very difficult-to-pronounce rhododendronwhatever
Rhododendron even isI would have to look it up myself, This word sounding puffed up, peacocky with its
Indianapolisly-long spelling, all those letters moving in and out. But the plant itself, the plant and the bees that find it:
The bees see in its purple flower, first, a purple flower. They do not spell it. They do not live in fear of quizzes,
Purple offering what it has to offer, unapologetic, without further Definition, purple irresistible to the artist's and to the bee's eye
Who can blame either one this first-grade impulse toward love? Purple, always wearing something low-cut . . . 
Alberto Rios is the Poet Laureate of Arizona and host of the PBS program Books &amp; Co. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for his poetry volume The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. He teaches at Arizona State University and lives in Chandler, Arizona.

A Small Story about the Sky

Copper Canyon Press

Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios's sixteenth book,Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and Ríos sheds light on and challenges our sensory experiences of everyday objects. At the same time, family memories and stories of the Sonoron desert weave throughout as Ríos travels in duality: between places, between times, and between lives. In searching for and treasuring what ought to be remembered, Ríos creates an ode to family life, love andcommunity, and realizes "All I can do is not go away. / Not go away is my name."

Not Go Away Is My Name

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Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems

Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses: Poems

The Curtain of Trees: Stories

The Curtain of Trees: Stories

Whispering to fool the wind: Poems

Whispering to Fool the Wind: Poems

Five Indiscretions: A Book of Poems

The Lime Orchard Woman: Poems

A Small Story about the Sky

Not Go Away Is My Name