Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

Name: Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
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ISBN: 9781556591730

ISBN-10: 155659173X

ISBN-13: 9781556591730

Edition: 2002

Authors: Alberto Rios

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Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are 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 is magical realism at its shimmering best. The smallest muscle in the human body is in the ear. It is also the only muscle that does…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 110
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Alberto Rios teaches at Arizona State University and is the author of eight books of poetry, three collections of short stories, an a memoir. His book The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry.



A Physics of Sudden Light





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





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





In My Hurry


The Nipplebutton


A Small Motor


The Cities inside Us


What We've Done to Each Other





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





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 Limon


Holding My Shirts


Writing from Memory


Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science


Notes


About the Author