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In Domestic Life, written from the commonplace and recondite landscapes of his (extra)ordinary life in America—once the continent but now the country of Rioseco’s linguistic universe—he lays down and ferments, for the first time in his poetry, the crumbs of time: its everyday passage, its occasional apparent standstills. The voice and the poetic gaze pause over and capture the subcutaneous pulse of seemingly lifeless, insignificant moments of everyday existence: the never-ending wait on a backed-up highway or in the supermarket parking lot, yet another late night in front of the TV, the spontaneous conversation with the hairdresser or the mailman.
—Micaela Paredes Barraza