A Small Story about the Sky

"Rios evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar." The Washington Post "Ríos delivers another stunning book of poems, rich in impeccable metaphors, that revel in the ordinariness of morning coffee and the crackle of thunderous desert storms. In one sonnet, Ríos addresses injustice in the borderlands, capturing with mathematical precision the everyday struggles that many migrants face'The border is an equation in search of an equals sign.' A series of sonnets about