Body in Flames/Cuerpo En Llamas

by Francisco X. Alarcón

Book Overview

Poetry with text in English and Spanish!!! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877017182
• ISBN13: 9780877017189
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Evocative, minimalist poetry

This is a dual language book - Spanish and English - occasionally both in the same text. The form of the poetry is short line, free form e.g. from "Natural Criminal" "I am/ a nomad/ in a country/ of settlers" or in Spanish "soy/ un nomada/ en un pais/ de sedentarios". Ordinarily, this form would become tiring when reading poem after poem with little variation in structure. However, Alarcon varies content and uses the form to set "gems" of images.While I would not expect to see these poems anthologized three centuries from now, they are immediate and evocative - well worth your time reading.