First published in 1984, this award-winning book, considered a classic of Chicano fiction, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alberto Alvaro Rios is Regents Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe. ACCLAIM "Colorful, hurtful, as real as legend, this book provides a wonderful new access to a large but mostly unperceived culture and will loom large in any approach to the emerging art of the Mexican worldview in English. Rios is an artist."-- Choice "The Iguana Killer is not the Chicano version of Catcher in the Rye--but it is close."-- San...
First published in 1984, this award-winning book, considered a classic of Chicano fiction, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Pre...
Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizonaare lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Rios utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and preserve history beyond facts: plastic lemons turning into baseballs, a grandmother s long hair reaching up to save her life, the painted faith jumpers leaping to the earth and crowd below. This...
National Book Award finalist
Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Ari...
Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--"all this," writes Alberto Rios, "and things people will not tell you."
Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange, stirring together Rios's memories of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses--in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico.
The vignettes in this memoir are not loud or fast. Yet like all of Rios's writing they are singular. Here is the story about a...
Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and ...
"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.""The Washington Post"
"Rios 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, Rios 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'...
"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.""The Washington Post"
