Body in Flames/Cuerpo En Llamas

This is a dual language book - Spanish and English - occasionally both in the same text. The form of the poetry is short line, free form e.g. from "Natural Criminal" "I am/ a nomad/ in a country/ of settlers" or in Spanish "soy/ un nomada/ en un pais/ de sedentarios". Ordinarily, this form would become tiring when reading poem after poem with little variation in structure. However, Alarcon varies content and uses the form to set "gems" of images.While I would not expect to see these poems anthologized three centuries from now, they are immediate and evocative - well worth your time reading.