The Dangerous Shirt - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

"Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Rios includes something for almost everyone."&;Publishers Weekly

"Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable... Rios continually surprises us in the way he stretches the meaning of words, turning them this way and that." -- San Francisco Chronicle

&;Ríos&;s 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

&;Alberto Ríos is... arguably the best Latino poet writing in English today.&;&;Prairie Schooner

Alberto Ríos&;s new poems&;magical wormholes through mundane reality&;create an improbably true space where human bodies fall through floorboards, prickly feelings of limbs &;fallen asleep&; are stars buzzing under the skin, and ironed shirts hanging in a closet take on a foreboding sense of danger. Together they are a book of magical realism and cultural physics seeking the &;also-moment&;&;the probable and imaginative directions a single moment might become. &;Science may be our best way of understanding the world,&; Ríos writes in one poem, &;but it may not be our best way of living in it.&;

The shirt in my closet is dangerous.
I shouldn&;t have ironed it.

Because I have, I will put it on.
If I put it on, I will be dressed.

If I am dressed, I will be drawn toward the door,
The door and not the couch&;the door . . .

Alberto Ríos is the author of nine books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. He has taught at Arizona State University for over twenty-five years. His book of poems The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body was nominated for the National Book Award.

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