Glow of Our Sweat

With poems, translations, and an essay, Francisco Aragon enacts a dialogue between poetry and prose, memory and imagination, self and other, as he deftly begins to un-“cover” a road where a “gay,” “Latino,” and “cosmopolitan” poet fully inhabits the world. More than a collection of poems, Glow of Our Sweat is a community of poems—one where multiple voices and genres mingle, converse, and commiserate.

A native of San Francisco and a former long-term resident of Spain, Francisco Aragon is the author of Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press) and editor of the award-winning, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press). His work has appeared in a range of anthologies, including Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (W.W. Norton), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press), Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality (Bottom Dog Press), Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark Press) and, most recently, Mariposa: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press). His poems and translations (from the Spanish) have appeared in various print and web publications, including, Chain, Crab Orchard Review, Chelsea, The Journal, the online venues, Jacket, Electronic Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily. He directs Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the editor of Canto Cosas, a book series from Bilingual Press featuring the work of Latino and Latina poets. He is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshop in San Antonio and on the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).Visit his website at: http://franciscoaragon.net.