In his thirteenth book, Alberto Rios, Arizona's first Poet Laureate, casts an intense desert light on rich stories unfolding along the Mexico - U.S. border. Peppered with Spanish culture and touches of magical realism, the objects of ordinary life - showers, spilled birdseed, winter lemons - become explorations of mortality and humanity, and the many possibilities of how life might yet be lived.
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