Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun--which the Maya believe arrives in 2012--and Alarcon identifies as the era of the "Flower Sun" when the World's biggest concerns would be "the colors / and the scents / of flowers // sprouting / from nowhere / everywhere...."