Every Sound Is Not a Wolf

By: Alberto Ros

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Paperback | 8 April 2025

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112 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 1.27

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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 existence—between people and the natural world, between life and death, between spirit and body, between borders real and imagined. What does it mean for a body to house two languages? And what is an imaginary line between countries? From backyard to Sonoran desert, from mining town to river, this collection journeys the human experience, through grief and joy, tuned to the “small buzzing of a live world.” Ríos asks us to feel the connective electric pulse between all things, to find newness, musicality, and beauty in the mundane. That the world keeps moving forward, this is miracle enough.

Industry Reviews

"[Rios's] concise poems-often stately columns of couplets-drift off regularly into memories of a Mexican-American childhood in Arizona."-New York Times

"Alberto Rios is a poet of reverie and magical perception, and of the threshold between this world and the world just beyond."-Judges' citation, National Book Award

"Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional . . . Rios includes something for almost everyone." -Publishers Weekly

"Rios's verse inhabits a country of his own making, sometimes political, often personal, with the familiarity and pungency of an Arizona chili." -Christian Science Monitor

"Gentle, accessible work that retains its powers within (not despite) its linguistic and stylistic smoothness, and these powers pull the mind and heart awake in ways that only poetry can do."-Western American Literature

"Touches on the timeless capacity of love, family, and community to help us realize our better selves." -ASU Now

"Alberto Rios is the man you want to sit next to when it is time to hear a story."-Southwest BookViews

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