Body in Flames/Cuerpo En Llamas

by Francisco X. Alarcón

Poems in the original Spanish and English translation deal with reality, change, city life, childhood, language, men and women, families, the senses, mortality, and alienation

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

Reviews

[Emily]

Stumbled upon this at the Poet's House in Manhattan and gah! What a find! Simple yet beautiful poems presented in Spanish and English.

me duele
verte así

gastando
tus ojos
y tu tiempo

en eso
que llamas
poemas.
--"Consejos de una madre"

(It hurts me
to see you like this

wasting
your eyes
and your time

in those
that you call
poems.)

I also loved:
-"Gramática/Grammar"
-"Naturaleza criminal/Natural Criminal"
-"Una pequeña gran victoria/A Small but Fateful Victory"
-"Un Beso Is Not a Kiss"
-"El amor no existe/Love Doesn't Exist"

[Nathaniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

“por nuestro
pueblo
hablarán
estos muros

elocuentes
apuntarán
así amaron
esos locos

hermosas
sinfonías
saldrán
de garabatos

ahí mismo
quedará
nuestra vida
por descifrarse”

(“Graffiti”)

[Michael James]

all father who ward in heaven

[Mills College Library]

861 A321b 1990