Reality Ribs

In Reality Ribs, Roberto Tinoco Duran hands us snapshots that are both painful and illuminating. In an imagistic, minimalist style, he reveals life in brief flashes: a men's shelter, a shopping-cart lady, a cockroach falling into a baby's cereal bowl. These poems, accessible yet layered with a profound irony, present the rituals and routines of a barrio life woven with spirit, compassion, and despair. Duran's vision allows us to review our own world and take back life's lessons from that experience.