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9780887394508

Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a La Locura Y Otras Penas: Sonetos a LA Locura Y Otras Penas

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  • ISBN13:

    9780887394508

  • ISBN10:

    0887394507

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $15.00

Summary

Francisco X. Alarcon started writing poetry when he was 13. "I wanted to transcribe the songs my grandmother used to sing." He sees poetry as an open-ended dialogue, with readers bringing their own meaning to the works. A virtual whirlwind of interests and passions, besides being a leading Chicago poet, Alarcon is an educator, community activist, and gay advocate. For him, none of his myriad activities is separate from the others. "Everything is related, " he says. "My work as an educator is related to my work as a writer as a critic. Everything comes together in my own life."

Table of Contents

Chicano Dedication 3(10)
I want to stop being an endless night
5(2)
I want to embrace you, dear wind
7(2)
Your eyes show me how to see again
9(2)
``If the mountain doesn't come to you''
11(2)
New Day 13(10)
Back then hours were so long
15(2)
Sister, your long hair wipes away
17(2)
I'm your son as well, don't deny it
19(2)
Listen to me like that echo lost
21(2)
Bird 23(10)
And I said goodbye as if biting the air
25(2)
One is nothing, a steppe, a desert
27(2)
Let's gather up those mornings
29(2)
You'll arrive with your heart beating
31(2)
Tenzontle 33(10)
You gnaw at me, tiger, from within
35(2)
When I say, ``here hums another voice''
37(2)
Words are rusted keys
39(2)
Beneath this language, there's another
41(2)
Wounded Words 43(10)
We've stopped being monologues
45(2)
You wait like the desert awaits
47(2)
I come to your doors, Mission Dolores
49(2)
Now that everything has its price
51(2)
Sea Nocturne 53(11)
Night arrives and again you're gone
55(2)
Grandma, where has everyone gone?
57(2)
Let us sing to the love of loves
59(2)
When not even the rusted
61(3)
Canto 64

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