Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses

Boldly playful, gymnastic and surreal. Leslie Ullman, Kenyon Review

“"Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable. . . . Ros continually surprises us in the way he stretches the meaning of words, turning them this way and that."”

"There is a miraculous botany in the hybrid village consciousness of Teodoro Luna. It is a marriage of unlikely flowers, say the groom Kierkegaard to the bride Bashevis Singer. But this is something altogether new and glorious, these recent poems of Alberto Rios." -- Norman Dubie "I love poems that are exact, and that reflect knowledge and are zany... I think Rios is a delicate poet, and a wise one. I welcome this lovely book." -- Gerald Stern "Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable... Rios continually surprises us in the way he stretches the meaning of words, turning them this way and that." -- Patty Somlo - San Francisco Chronicle "Each of his many characters (the book is a crowded village) is dealt with tenderly and humorously... If Rios' work is charming (and it is, amply), it is so in the sense of magic, where charms turn one thing to another and reveal essential truths." -- Booklist

Alberto Rios is the author of nine books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. He has taught at Arizona State University for over twenty-five years. His book of poems THE SMALLEST MUSCLE IN THE HUMAN BODY was nominated for the National Book Award.

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