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Issue 88 |
Fall 2002

The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Ríos

by
Staff

Alberto Ríos,
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, poems: Ríos wryly carves poems from fable, parable, and family legend to examine the Nogales, Arizona, of his childhood-a literal and metaphorical border between the U.S. and Mexico. (Copper Canyon)