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The smallest muscle in the human body

A collection of poems by the Arizona author focuses on life in a border town, using fable and family legend to paint a portrait of cultures meeting, clashing, and weaving in the borderlands.

Main Author: Ríos, Alberto.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2014]
Physical Description: 107 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry.
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505 0 0 |t A physics of sudden light --  |t Day of the refugios --  |t Birdman of Nogales --  |t Weekly morning meeting of the town's civic band --  |t A simple thing to know --  |t Mr. Palomino walks by again --  |t At the street parties for the 16 de septiembre, Nogales, Mexico, 1962 --  |t Los voladores de Papantla --  |t Appointment houses --  |t Kid Hielero --  |t Refugio's hair --  |t Small risings -- Signal right --  |t French postales --  |t In second grade Miss Lee I promised never to forget you and I never did --  |t Eating potato chips in middle age --  |t Venus trombones --  |t My chili --  |t In my hurry --  |t Nipplebutton --  |t A small motor --  |t Cities inside us --  |t What we've done to each other --  |t Impossible still-life --  |t Oranges in a tree --  |t A yellow leaf -- The fall of the bears --  |t Gathering evening --  |t Gray dogs --  |t Common crows in a winter tree --  |t My coyote --  |t What happened to me --  |t Under mesquite trees in the sun --  |t Rabbits and fire --  |t Dog inside mine --  |t Chinese food in the fifties --  |t Summers, about 1959 --  |t In the strong hold of her thin arms --  |t A September death --  |t If I leave you --  |t Cups of frothed chocolate --  |t Lemon kind of baseball --  |t Domingo Limon --  |t Holding my shirts --  |t Writing from memory --  |t Some extensions on the sovereignty of science. 
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