Canto Hondo / Deep Song

Honours the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico García Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarcón deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love, self, loss, and universal truths.

About the author

Francisco X. Alarcón teaches at University of California, Davis, where he directs the Spanish for Native Speakers Program. He is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, including From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems, Borderless Butterflies / Mariposas sin fronteras, Of Dark Love, and Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes. He is also an award-winning author of six books of bilingual poems for children.

Summary

Honours the Andalusian deep lyric, or canto hondo, poetry of famed Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca through rich and expressive poems. Francisco X. Alarcon deftly places Spanish and English side-by-side in this bilingual collection that is a modern meditation on love, self, loss, and universal truths.

Product details

• Authors: Francisco X. Alarc¿n, Francisco X. Alarc=n, Francisco X. Alarcaon, Francisco X. Alarcon, Francisco X Alarcón, Francisco X. Alarcón
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9780816531288
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3128-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Bezug zu Schwulen, Lesben und Bisexuellen, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans)