Works by Francisco X Alarcon

Posted by Brittany Pollock on February 18, 2008

For Children:

    Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates risuenos y otros poemas de primavera
    Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems/Los angeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otono
    From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano
    Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para sonar juntos


For Adults:
Ten volumes of poetry including:
    No Golden Gate for Us
    Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation
    Poemas zurdos
    De amor oscuro/Of Dark Love
    Body in Flames/Cuerpo en llamas
    Loma Prieta
    Quake Poems
    Tattoos


Textbooks:
    Mundo 21
    Pasaporte al Mundo 21
    Tu Mundo
    Nuestro Mundo


Awards and Recognition:
    1984 Chicano Literary Prize
    1993 American Book Award
    1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
    1997 Pura Belpre Honor Award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal.
    1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
    2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
    2002 Pura Belpre Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships



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