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The smallest muscle in the human body / Alberto Ríos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ríos, Alberto.
- Series:
- Latino literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Poetry.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 p. ; 23 cm.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2002.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Alberto Ríos literally charms his border town--this is magical realism at its best.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Note to the Reader
- Contents
- A Physics of Sudden Light
- Section One
- Day of the Refugios
- The Birdman of Nogales
- The Weekly Morning Meeting of the Town's Civic Band
- A Simple Thing to Know
- Mr. Palomino Walks by Again
- At the Street Parties for the 16 de Septiembre, Nogales, Mexico, 1962
- Los Voladores de Papantla
- Appointment Houses
- Kid Hielero
- Refugio's Hair
- Section Two
- Small Risings
- Signal Right
- French Postales
- In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did
- Eating Potato Chips in Middle Age
- The Venus Trombones
- My Chili
- Section Three
- In My Hurry
- The Nipplebutton
- A Small Motor
- The Cities inside Us
- What We've Done to Each Other
- Section Four
- The Impossible Still-Life
- Oranges in a Tree
- A Yellow Leaf
- The Fall of the Bears
- The Gathering Evening
- Gray Dogs
- Common Crows in a Winter Tree
- My Coyote
- What Happened to Me
- Under Mesquite Trees in the Sun
- Rabbits and Fire
- The Dog Inside Mine
- Section Five
- Chinese Food in the Fifties
- Summers, about 1959
- In the Strong Hold of Her Thin Arms
- A September Death
- If I Leave You
- Cups of Frothed Chocolate
- The Lemon Kind of Baseball
- Domingo Limón
- Holding My Shirts
- Writing From Memory
- Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
- Notes
- About the Author
- Books by Alberto Ríos
- Link
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61932-123-8
- OCLC:
- 180772579
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