Rios, Alberto

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Un precioso retrato de Mexico

Mexico: Visto Y Andado
Jorge Alberto Lozoya , Ignacio Padilla , and Carlos Villasenor
Manufacturer: Lunwerg Editores
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8497851234

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Un precioso retrato de Mexico.......2007-05-14

Excelente libro. Tuve la oportunidad de ver la exposición en el paseo de la reforma en México DF en Enero del 2007 y me pareció sorprendente. No solo la fotografía del Sr. Adalberto Rios Szalay si no la contextualización y análisis de cada foto es preciosa.
Un retrato fiel, bello y reflexivo de México.
Definitivamente una colección de fotografías y textos digna de tener en casa.

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Mulling over an ordinary life with grace and dignity

The Theater of Night
Alberto Rios
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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"Rios writes in a serenely clear manner."-The New York Times Book Review

"Rios' verse inhabits a country of his own making, sometimes political, often personal, with the familiarity and pungency of an Arizona chili."-The Christian Science Monitor

Following the success of his National Book Award nomination, Alberto Rios' new book is filled with magic, marvel, and emotional truth. Set along the elusive Mexican-American border, his poems trace the lives and loves of an elderly couple, Clemente and Ventura, through their childhood and courtship to marriage, maturity, old age, and death.

From The Chair She Sits In

I've heard this thing where, when someone dies,
People close up all the holes around the house-
The keyholes, the chimney, the windows,
Even the mouths of the animals, the dogs and the pigs.
It's so the soul won't be confused, or tempted.
It's so when the soul comes out of the body it's been in,
But which doesn't work anymore,
It won't simply go into another one
And try to make itself at home,
Pretending as if nothing happened . . .

Rios' narratives are both surreal and hyper-real, creating the hard, sweet weave of two lives becoming one. The National Book Award judges noted that Rios is a "poet of reverie," and like the best of storytellers he charms his readers, making us care deeply for-even love-these people we read.

Alberto Rios is the poet laureate of Arizona and teaches at Arizona State University. He is the author of eight books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. Rios is the recipient of numerous awards, and his work is included in over 175 national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music.

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Mulling over an ordinary life with grace and dignity.......2006-12-13

Alberto Rios, the poet laureate of Arizona, manages to makes the most mundane aspects of living a flowing poetic journey. In THE THEATER OF NIGHT Rios shares the life of Clemente and Ventura, a couple living in the first half of the 20th Century along the US/Mexico border and in relating this simple 'life' he causes us to re-examine all of the prejudices and mounting ill-feelings that now surround the borderline between two countries. For that reason alone it is worth reading his words.

But Rios is not preaching or soapboxing here. He is merely in the simplest of terms relating the courting, love, and family building between two lovely people - and that is enough to pull our attention away from differences to similarities. In 'Explaining a Husband' Rios writes:

'We're like that, I think, he and I, that husband of mine.
We're like that now, even if we didn't start that way.
We used to love each other.
But now it's something else, something more.
We know each other's life. And when we talk,
We are each other's story.'

Rios is not profound to the first glance reader, nor does he purport to be. Yet it is in his simplicity of thought and communication that the profundity of his thoughts emerges. His gift is in exploring the familiar and therein finding the magic that glows form all of our lives. Grady Harp, December 06

The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart

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Great stories that truly show the bi-cultural perspective

The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart
Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback

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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. Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.

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Great stories that truly show the bi-cultural perspective.......1999-04-01

In Iguana Killer there are several stories of young boys and the growing up they have to do usually without too much financial security and the constant challenges that they meet in a bilingual as well as a bi-cultural setting. Rios has a gift for interpreting what goes on in young boys minds, and the stories themselves make for very good reading.

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The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Alberto Rios
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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ASIN: 155659173X

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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 not have blood vessels;

It has fluid instead. The reason for this is clear: The ear is so sensitive that the body, if it heard its own pulse,

Would be devastated by the amplification of its own sound. In this knowledge I sense a great metaphor,

But I do not want to be hasty in trying to capture or describe it. Words are our weakest hold on the world.

-from "Some Extensions of the Sovereignty of Science"

"Rios is onto something new in his poetry-in the way that the real poets of any time always are."-American Book Review

Alberto Rios teaches at Arizona State and is the author of eight books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir about growing up on the Mexican border. He is the recipient of numerous awards and his work is included in over 175 national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music.

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MOST ENCHANTING ACCOUNT OF GROWING UP IN A MULTI- HUED PLACE
My Childhood Town

Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir
Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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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 Ríos, “and things people will not tell you.”

Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich mélange, stirring together Ríos'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 Ríos's writing they are singular. Here is the story about a rickety magician, his chicken, and a group of little boys, but who plays a trick on whom? The story about the flying dancers and mortality. About going to the dentist in Mexico because it is cheaper, and maybe dangerous. About a British woman who sets out on a ship for America with the faith her Mexican GI will be waiting for her in Salt Lake City. And about the grown son who looks at his father and understands how he must provide for his own boy.

This book's uncommon offering is how it stops to address the quiet, the overlooked, the every day side of growing up. Capirotada is not about prison, or famous heroes. It is instead about the middle, which is often the most interesting place to find news. Vignettes of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses—in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico.

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MOST ENCHANTING ACCOUNT OF GROWING UP IN A MULTI- HUED PLACE.......2000-03-10

Sometimes you just want to read something that warms your heart. Something that is so rich and abundant with kindliness and warmth that you have to pause several times in your reading to ponder and absorb. The author must have been a very "nice boy." A nice boy with kaleidoscope vision and compassion.

Nothing fancy. Just plain home-cooking, albeit sometimes spicy, like the chilaquilas recipe in the book, which incidently, is wonderful!

My Childhood Town.......2000-01-17

I have never read a book about my hometown. This book took me back to my childhood days, and what it meant to grow up in a border town where everyone knew each other, everyone was friendly, there was no racism and you could sleep with the door unlocked, leave your keys in the car and it was safe. It also brought sadness at the same time, since Nogales is not the same Nogales of the fifties, sixties, seventies and even part of the eighties. It has grown extensively, has crime, and is no longer the little friendly town I once knew and loved.

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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.

La Universidad de Princeton abre al público la correspondencia de Adolfo Bioy Casares a Elena Garro. (Bioy Casares, escritor argentino; Garro, escritora ... An article from: Proceso
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La Universidad de Princeton abre al público la correspondencia de Adolfo Bioy Casares a Elena Garro. (Bioy Casares, escritor argentino; Garro, escritora ... An article from: Proceso
Pascal Beltrán del Río , and José Alberto Castro
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097R4T4
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on November 9, 1997. The length of the article is 3197 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: La Universidad de Princeton abre al público la correspondencia de Adolfo Bioy Casares a Elena Garro. (Bioy Casares, escritor argentino; Garro, escritora mexicana; incluye artículos relacionados)(TT: Princeton University opens to the public the letters from Adolfo Bioy Casares to Elena Garro) (TA: Bioy Casares, Argentinian writer; Garro, Mexican writer; includes related articles)(Interview)
Author: Pascal Beltrán del Río
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 9, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1097 Page: p74(7) Article Type: Interview, Biography Distributed by Thomson Gale

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Guayana: Historia de su territorialidad
Manuel Alberto Donis Rios
Manufacturer: Ferrominera del Orinoco
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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FIVE INDISCRETIONS: A BOOK OF POEMS
Alberto Rios
Manufacturer: Sheep Meadow Press New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IAWUJG

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