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Alarcon, Francisco X; Aragon, Francisco (Trans)ABAA

From the Other Side of Night / Del Otro Lado de la Noche: New and Selected Poems FIRST EDITION

2002ref. 15422Tucson: The University of Arizona Press 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii 213pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: On the other side of night Francisco Alarcón is waiting. One of Chicano literature's premier poets Alarcón 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 fifteen years along with fourteen new poems in a book that distills his magical sense of reality into a cup brimming with passion. Raised in Guadalajara and now living in the San Francisco Bay area Alarcón sees that " 'Mexican' / is not / a noun / or an / adjective / 'Mexican' / is a life / long / low-paying / job." Participating in a poetic tradition that goes back to the mystic Spanish poets of the sixteenth century he brings us sonnets infused with romance and tenderness-and shorter poems that are direct and hard-hitting commentaries on American society as he cries out for "a more godlike god" one "who spends nights / in houses / of ill repute / and gets up late / on Saturdays." Alarcón invokes both the mysteries of Mesoamerica and the "otherness" of his gay identity. "My skin is dark / as the night / in this country / of noontime" he writes "but my soul / is even darker / from all the light / I carry inside." In lyrical poems open to wide interpretation he transcends ethnic concerns to address social sexual and historical issues of concern to all Americans. The fourteen new poems in From the Other Side of Night offer startling new commentaries on life and love sex and AIDS. Shifting effortlessly between English and Spanish-and even Nahuatl-Alarcón demonstrates the gift of language that has earned him both a wide readership and the admiration of fellow poets. With this book he invites new readers to meet him where the darkness is palpable and the soul burns bright.Publisher. The University of Arizona Press hardcover books

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