Poetry. DE AMOR OSCURO / OF DARK LOVE is back in print afer three years. Francisco X. Alarcon, Chicano poet, critic, and editor, was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, and now lives in Davis, where he teaches at the University of California. Author of nine volumes of poetry, he has received numerous awards and prizes for his work. This bilingual edition of DE AMOR OSCURO includes Alarcon's original Spanish text, English translations by Francisco Aragon, and drawings by California artist Ray Rice.

Author City: DAVIS, CA USA

Francisco X. Alarcón (born in Los Angeles, in 1954, and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico) is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, and a number of books of bilingual poetry for children. He has won many awards and fellowships, including the Danforth and Fulbright fellowships, and the 1993 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award, the 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize. In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) in San Francisco. He teaches at the University of California, Davis.