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A small story about the sky / Alberto Ríos.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.I587 A6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ríos, Alberto.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 125 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- 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 props--morning showers, spilled birdseed, winter lemons--becomes an exploration of mortality and humanity, and the many possibilities of how lives might yet be lived.
- Contents:
- 1 They hide very well
- Sunday Dinner at Tuesday Breakfast 5
- Morning, Just 6
- Sudden Smells, Sudden Songs 7
- Leaves and Leaves 8
- Dark Rubies in a Pirate's Chest 10
- When There Were Ghosts 12
- Me Showering 13
- Small Town Cashews 15
- Winter Lemons 17
- Where Sleep Is 18
- The Thirst of Things 20
- Our Second Lives 21
- The Half-Brother Sciences 23
- Looking Across the Line 25
- On Gathering Artists 29
- Desert Bestiary Sonnet, One 31
- When Giving Ts All We Have 32
- Desert Flora Sonnet, One 33
- Who's That Good-Looking Pie Chart Walking Down the Hall? 34
- Desert Bestiary Sonnet, Two 35
- Stardust and Centuries 36
- An Instruction to Myself 36
- 2 Oh, us.
- A Small Story about the Sky 41
- Short Stories 44
- A Winter Afternoon, Night Coming 45
- At Ease 46
- That Woman Who Used to Sit Here All Those Years 47
- Secrets of the Curandera 50
- The Flour Man 53
- Who Has Need, I Stand with You 55
- The Beetles and the Crows 56
- One Thursday Afternoon: Magdalena, Sonora, 1939 57
- November 2: Día de los muertos 58
- Me the Man in a Hurry 61
- The Border: A Double Sonnet 63
- Mad Honey 65
- Lemon-Light 67
- 3 We let them go
- We Dogs of a Thursday Off 71
- Two Men 72
- Not Me 73
- My Criminal Notebook 74
- Dry Water 76
- The Fence 77
- Before Sleep 78
- Weekend Weather 79
- She Uncovered Her Breasts for Me 80
- Words in the Woods 83
- The Feather in Search of Its Bird 84
- The Border Before 85
- The Middleman 86
- Water Flower 88
- How the Sky Is Made 90
- Poems of Public Purpose A mountain lion asks permission with its teeth
- Epithalamium: Next to Me 93
- Desert Flora Sonnet, Two 94
- Epithalamium: The Map of Us 95
- Desert Bestiary Sonnet, Three 96
- Epithalamium: Breathlessness 97
- Desert Flora Sonnet, Three 98
- The Circus in the Desert: Philip Curtis 99
- Knowledge Neighbors 101
- 4 Something is always broken
- Medicalarium 105
- Charm String 108
- One of the Two of Me 109
- Border Lines 110
- Líneas Fronterizas 111
- The Who That I Am 112
- One Morning at the End of the Cold Months 113
- More than Once 115
- On Waking, If Waking 116
- Hands on the Wall of a Church 117
- Understanding the Black-Tailed Jackrabbit 118
- Citizens of a Great Country 120
- Dentist, Mexico, 1959 121
- October Rain 122
- The Broken 123.
- ISBN:
- 9781556594793
- 1556594798
- OCLC:
- 891185527
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