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Francisco Arag\\xf3n shares poems alive with the vibrancy of a particular voice addressed to a particular audience. He introduces Francisco X. Alarc\\xf3n\\u2019s bittersweet homage to a poetic ancestor (\\u201cHernando Ruiz de Alarc\\xf3n\\u201d), Thom Gunn\\u2019s farewell address to a beloved fellow writer (\\u201cTo Isherwood Dying\\u201d), and Denise Levertov\\u2019s mythic, ecstatic monologue on transformation (\\u201cA Tree Telling of Orpheus\\u201d). Arag\\xf3n concludes the episode with a direct address of his own that challenges Arizona\\u2019s SB 1070 (\\u201cPoem with a Phrase of Isherwood\\u201d).

\\xa0Listen to the full recordings of Alarc\\xf3n, Gunn, and Levertov reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Francisco X. Alarc\\xf3n (2008)
Thom Gunn (1986)
Denise Levertov (1973)