The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated from her childhood in California from her familyampamprsquos roots in Mexico from a dying parent from her prior self. The world is always in motionampampmdashboth toward and away from usampampmdashand it is also full of risk from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City where as Limampampoacuten reminds us even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans theyampamprsquove crawled into. In such a world how should one proceed Throughout Sharks in the Rivers Limampampoacuten suggests that we must cleave to the world as it ampampldquokeeps opening before usampamprdquo for if we pay attention we can be one with its complex ephemeral and beautiful strangeness.