From backyard to Sonoran desert, Every Sound is Not a Wolf explores the tender connection between people, place, and the natural world.Alberto Ríos’ Every Sound is Not a Wolf evokes and awakens the senses—the smell of herbs, “the geckos at their mysterious work.” Even silence grows loud and expansive in its stillness. Told entirely in couplets, and with remarkable lucidity, Ríos balances the harmonies and disharmonies found throughout all of exist...

"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 ...

“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. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker“Ríos creates the feeling of enchanted or intimate lore within a family [and] evokes the mysterious and unexpected forces that dwell inside the familiar.”—The Washington PostNow in paperback, and following the succe...

National Book Award finalistAlberto Ríos explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Ríos utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and preserve history beyond facts: plastic lemons turning into baseballs, ...

Este no es un libro para almas bellas, corazones bondadosos o gente altruista. Tampoco es un libro escrito para convencer a la gente de lo maravilloso que es el mundo de los negocios. Pero si a usted le interesa ganar dinero, y no se hace ilusión respecto del mundo en que vive, ha comprado el libro indicado. El autor se ha enmascarado en un seudónimo por diversas razones y ninguna parece demasiado confesable. Estas páginas que usted tiene entre sus manos versan acerca de Nicolás Maquiavelo...

Set during the Civil War, a troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after the death of her unfaithful husband. As dreams of a new life seem hopeful, she ventures across the western plains with her sickly daughter in tow and an unscrupulous businessman who promises her a pot of gold.But the seeds of this dangerous venture—-sown in blood—-yield the unexpected and what she encounters along the fringes of the Oregon Trail in the dark corners of the prairies, will change her ...

The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by Peggy Schumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibl...

El por qu debes leer este pequeo pero interesante libro. En el hallars respuesta a muchas interrogantes de la vida cotidiana como la hiptesis de donde surge el VIH y sus posibles forma de erradicarlo de la faz de la tierra. Tambin hallars explicacin a algunos fenmenos naturales, que a simple vista y percepcin nos parecen malos. Todo ello con lenguaje coloquial a travs de los distintos personajes que interactun en la trama del libro. Creo que la parte ms lograda del libro es la frase con qu...

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of garden lightshuddled like foothills, earth you coul...

Ciberdelitos 3 ofrece un abordaje integral y actualizado de los principales desafíos que plantea el derecho penal frente al avance vertiginoso de las tecnologías digitales. Reuniendo aportes de especialistas de reconocida trayectoria, la obra analiza con profundidad doctrinaria y jurisprudencial una amplia gama de conductas ilícitas que se desarrollan en entornos virtuales y tecnológicos emergentes.Entre los temas tratados se destacan los delitos cometidos...

"Escribir es como una droga. Se empieza por puro placer y acabas organizando tu vida como los drogadictos, en torno a tu vicio." Esta frase del escritor portugués Antonio Lobo Antunes me llevó a reunir los testimonios de más de cincuentaescritores de diferentes épocas y países sobre su quehacer literario en Gajes del oficio. La pasión de escribir. El lector dispone ahora de estas confesiones en forma de libro, páginas por las que pasan la decisión de dedicarse a la literatura, el deseo de ...

Este libro analiza la vida de millonarios famosos como Henry Ford, Paul Getty, Walt Disney, Conrad Hilton, Steven Spielberg y otros, dándonos consejos sobre cómo crear el estado mental correcto y habitos para tener éxito.