From the Other Side of Night / Del Otro Lado De La Noche

by Alarcon, Francisco X.

• ISBN13: 9780816521807
• ISBN10: 0816521808
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

One of Chicano literature's premier poets, Alarcon has brought his luminous images to the page in such acclaimed volumes as "Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes" and "Snake Poems." Now he has assembled the best of his work from 15 years, along with 14 new poems, in a book that distills his magical sense of reality into a cup brimming with passion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Tattoos	p. 3
Roots	p. 4
Dialectics of Love	p. 5
Eros	p. 6
Flags	p. 7
Prayer	p. 8
I Used to Be Much Much Darker	p. 10
Un Beso Is Not a Kiss	p. 12
Dark Light	p. 15
Fugitive	p. 16
In Praise of Tortillas	p. 18
Acusado de todo	p. 19
Patria	p. 20
Zenthroamerika	p. 21
A Shadow's Fate	p. 22
Blessed	p. 23
Bridge	p. 24
Imprisoned Poet	p. 27
So Real	p. 28
Old Song	p. 30
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles	p. 31
Advice of a Mother	p. 33
Dark Room	p. 34
My Father	p. 35
A Small but Fateful Victory	p. 36
Natural Criminal	p. 38
The Other Day I Ran into Garcia Lorca	p. 39
Everything Is an Immense Body	p. 40
Prophetic Anatomy	p. 41
Body in Flames	p. 42
Las flores son nuestras armas	p. 43
Love Doesn't Exist	p. 45
My Hands	p. 46
My Bed	p. 47
Order in the Home	p. 48
My Hair	p. 49
My Dead	p. 50
Letter to America	p. 51
Loma Prieta	p. 55
Memorial	p. 56
Chance	p. 58
Gatherers	p. 59
Poor Poets	p. 61
Victima del sismo	p. 62
Lamentary	p. 64
Blessed the Big One	p. 65
Tambores	p. 67
First-Person Eulogy	p. 68
Vision	p. 70
Four Directions	p. 75
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon (1587-1646)	p. 76
In the Middle of the Night	p. 78
Shame	p. 79
Mestizo	p. 80
Matriarch	p. 82
Spirit Book	p. 83
Songs	p. 85
To Those Who Have Lost Everything	p. 86
Never Alone	p. 88
Nomatca Nehuatl	p. 89
Journey	p. 91
Traveler's Prayer	p. 93
Midnight Water Song	p. 94
Ololiuhqui	p. 95
Morning Ritual	p. 96
Seven Flower	p. 97
For Planting Corn	p. 98
Snake Wheel	p. 100
Ode to Tomatoes	p. 102
Potent Seeds	p. 103
Against Anger	p. 105
Face and Heart	p. 106
For Finding Affection	p. 108
For Love	p. 110
Tonantzin	p. 111
Cihuacoatl	p. 112
Working Hands	p. 113
In Xochitl In Cuicatl	p. 114
Silence	p. 117
The X in My Name	p. 118
Streetwise	p. 119
Californian Missions	p. 120
L. A. Prayer	p. 121
Soother	p. 123
Amor zurdo	p. 124
Seer	p. 125
"Mexican" Is Not a Noun	p. 126
Continental	p. 128
Maternal Home	p. 130
Isla Mujeres	p. 131
There has never been sunlight for this love	p. 137
Your hands are two hammers	p. 139
Asleep you become a continent	p. 141
I like to walk beside you	p. 143
"There are two ways in this world ..."	p. 145
Once again I look out your window	p. 147
How to console the loneliest man ...?	p. 149
New Day	p. 153
I want to embrace you, dear wind	p. 155
Your eyes show me how to see again	p. 157
Back then hours were so long	p. 159
Listen to me like that echo lost	p. 161
And I said good-bye as if biting the air	p. 163
Words are rusted keys	p. 165
Beneath this language, there's another	p. 167
For Us	p. 171
Encounter	p. 172
From the Other Side of Night	p. 173
Out	p. 175
Love Plea	p. 176
Left	p. 178
Ritual for Unloving	p. 179
Boricua	p. 180
In My Mouth	p. 186
AIDS Blues	p. 187
For Life	p. 188
Questions	p. 189
Tlazolteotl!	p. 190
Desert Prayer	p. 194
Afterword	p. 195
Glossary	p. 205
Critical Works	p. 211
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