Francisco X. Alarcon, Author . Univ. of Arizona $35 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8165-2180-7
From the mid-'80s on, Alarcón's eight books of verse in English and Spanish made him a well-known Chicano poet, and one of the first to write poems about love between men. This ample selected makes room for all Alarcón's...
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Francisco X. Alarcon, Author, Maya Christina Gonzalez, Illustrator , illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children's Book Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89239-225-4
Two West Coast Chicano artists (From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems
) celebrate Iguazú Falls, the immense rain forest waterfalls that lie between Argentina and Brazil. “These waterfalls/ are the big blue/ and green...
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Francisco X. Alarcon, Author, Maya Christina Gonzalez, Ill, Illustrator Children's Book Press (CA) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-89239-168-4
Francisco X. Alarcbon celebrates a San Francisco winter in Iguanas in the Snow: And Other Winter Poems/ Iguanas en la nieve: y otros poemas de invierno. The title poem describes a family delighted ""to see snow/ for the first time/ on the Sierra
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Francisco X. Alarcon, Author, Donald S. Ellis, Contribution by Creative Arts Book Company $15 (66p) ISBN 978-0-88739-450-8
Replete with image-laden longing, Francisco X. Alarcon's Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes/Sonetos a la locura y otras penas, a bilingual collection translated by Francisco Arag n, has calculated as well as accidental impact, where words ...
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