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

by Francisco X. Alarcón

Book Overview

On the other side of night, Francisco Alarc n is waiting. One of Chicano literature's premier poets, Alarc n has brought his luminous images to the page in such acclaimed volumes as Sonnets to Madness... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521808
• ISBN13: 9780816521807
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must have!

I totally feel engaged by Alarcon's poems. I thank him for including poems about social issues and for including some many poems in nahuatl, a language I love although I do not speak it. All the poems are bilingual and were translated into English by the author. This is a beautiful book portraying the lives of people, places, and situations. The poems written by Francisco Alarcon are exquisite, evocative and full of passion. I loved the poems in nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. My favorite poem is called: "Mexican is not a noun" which is a poem dedicated to "students and faculty professors who were arrested for showing solidarity with two thousand cannery workers who were mostly women ". "Mexican is not a noun or an adjective, Mexican is a life long low-paying job, a check mark on a welfare police form, more than a word a nail in the soul but it hurts, it points, it dreams, it offends, it cries, it moves, it strikes, it burns, just like a verb". This is a phenomenal book for class discussion, for working in small groups and as a piece of literature that should be present in very house.