“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . .

Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios’s sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting g

National Book Award finalist Alberto Ríos returns with his signature desert Southwest magical-realism.

"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar."—The Washington Post "Ríos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in

Mortality, family memories, dreams, and an understanding of human personality are depicted in brief poems.