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National Book Award finalist Alberto Ríos returns with his signature desert Southwest magical-realism.
Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Ríos (The Theater of Night) includes something for almost everyone. A plethora of quiet poems explore such basic concepts as body and spirit, life and death, phenomenology and circumstance: "Night surrounds the sun as well, which tries every day// So hard to make us think otherwise"; "I am stuck inside the house of myself, my address... squarely in that place between// What I remember and what I can guess." Ríos also tries for a sort of Stevensian and slightly ponderous comedy: "I am the commander of the suddenly portly vessel of myself," begins a poem about overeating. Yet Ríos remains a writer alert to "the corners of the great American southwest,/ The orange and brown bricks, the lazy half-blue// Jacaranda," and a writer conscious of his own Mexican ancestry, especially as the volume nears its close. As general as these ambitious poems can get, they circle back to the locales, sounds and tastes that he and his family know. Their experience finally exemplifies the rhythms of Ríos' stable universe, "making the night into a nest/ Fixed and filled enough for what comes next." (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Melina Sfakianaki
reviewed The Dangerous Shirt on April 22, 2014 The Dangerous Shirt
Short disclaimer: Tito is a 21-years friend. He is one of the most generous literary citizens I know. He has supported me and mentored me and shown me all kinds of kindnesses that I can never repay. So take my review for what it is: I'm not just a fan of his writing, I'm someone who respects him and hopes I can be such an inspiration to others some day. Thank you for this book and these poems, Tito, and for everything you do to support writers everywhere.
I heard Tito read from this book at a celebration of his new post as Arizona Poet Laureate. I took a large group of my students with me--some who had not heard Tito's work--and they were so happy and energized afterwards. Tito's poems pack big stories in small packages, and never fail to move the reader, even those who are new to poetry.
Some of my favorite moments:
"The other boy would always be shouting
come on instead of go away."
"I walk on the ground
but see no ground beneath me."
"Here, the sky was full of anti-stars, of also-stars,
Quartz and glass buttons, tin lids and dimes."
"Finding the century hidden in every half-second."
"Wherever we sit these days
is a waiting room."
"Rain falls down wet and gets up green."
"Tomorrow is a country I have not visited."
"A pie is a pie for one great day."
"What I feel in my hand is what I see in the sky."
"If it looks like rain, don't say it out loud."
"I am the commander of the suddenly portly vessel of myself."
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