"Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable. . . . Ríos continually surprises us in the way he stretches the meaning of words, turning them this way and that." -- Patty Somlo - San Francisco Chronicle "I love poems that are exact, and that reflect knowledge and are zany. . . . I think Ríos is a delicate poet, and a wise one. I welcome this lovely book." -- Gerald Stern "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 Ríos." -- Norman Dubie