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Francisco Xavier Alarcón (21 February1954– 15 January2016) was a Chicano poet and educator.

Quotes

• I believe that I became a poet, a writer, when I was transcribing my grandma's songs in Mexico.

  I was about 15 years old. And my grandma used to sing with the mandolin a beautiful song that she used to play, and I thought at that point that she was basically singing from the old tradition of Mexico. But then I became aware that those were her own songs, but she had never written down the songs herself.

  So I decided to then transcribe the songs, and I would listen to her, and then write down the songs.

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They were very beautiful songs, in the Hispanic tradition of Guatecos and the ballads and so forth.

• For me, a poem is not about ideas. It's never an idea that I have. It's basically an image or a sense, mostly images, that have to do with the senses, and so the five senses, and then from the image, then, you know, I have to write it down.

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