De Amor Oscuro / of Dark Love

by Francisco X. Alarcón

Alarcon, Francisco X.

Genres: Poetry

21 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

These were gorgeous, and also made me realize I need to work harder to keep up with my Spanish skills. Alarcón has a lovely, compact style with a consistent yearning that hearkens to Neruda and Lorca, but with his own distinct style. I love a good sad, weird sonnet, and the accompanying drawings in this edition were spooky and beautiful.

[Minosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are such beautiful longing love poems. I sort of didn't realize until I read the other reviews that they were separate poems though, I just read through the whole book as though it was one long poem and it works really well that way too. Also really fun to see the English and Spanish side by side, and how some lines sound better in one language or the other.

[Diego · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó mucho, los poemas me gustaron por qué tienen muchas formas distintas de mostrar el amor.

[Cmara.nbks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Algunos poemas muy bonitos otros muy secos pero medianamente es un libro muy chulo para pasar el tiempo y se lee en unos 20 min

[Beatrice]

"al dormir te vuelves un continente" is one of the glorious poems of the world.