A review by lmurray74
A Small Story about the Sky by Alberto Ríos

5.0

The gentleness and beauty of these poems linger a while. Ríos skilfully weaves metaphor without it ever feeling forced. The desert sonnets carry lines such as "Tarantulas are awkward left hands in search of a piano"; "Saguaros award everyone a touchdown". Elsewhere nature is always close to the bone, being poems of the desert and poems of the borderlands. The harshness of the land never feels a hardship and as someone who loves the desert landscape, I loved the lightness the poems bring.