| Canto Hondo/Deep Song Contributor(s): Alarcón, Francisco X. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816531285 ISBN-13: 9780816531288 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Lgbt |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2014024036 |
| Series: Camino del Sol |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.44 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Canto hondo / Deep Song honors the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico Garc a Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarc n deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love, self, loss, and universal truths. In this new collection, Alarc n creates poetry with roots in Gypsy songs clapped out in the distinctively short rhythms of flamenco music. Each page lifts the heart and stirs the soul by delving deep into the struggle for self and sexual identity. Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems divided into four sections that articulate struggle, otherness, and the meaning of the poetic landscape. Like Lorca, Alarc n seeks out the fault lines where the lyric and the political bleed productively and proactively into one another. An important voice in Chicano and GLBT poetry, Alarc n writes with a complex, emotionally powerful style that is accessible to students and all lovers of poetry and poetic traditions. |