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Author Francisco Aragón, poet and director of Letras Latinas, read a collection of poems from his book "Puerta del Sol" at a reading Thurs., April 10 at Gentry Auditorium.

Puerta del Sol is a collection of bilingual poems Aragón described as a "bilingual mirror of his "corazón," meaning "heart" in Spanish.

Aragón read several poems from the collection, many of which take place in a public setting. He read a poem titled "Bus Driver", a poem inspired by a city bus driver. "City Moon and Bridge over Strawberry Creek" were two other poems Aragón read from his collection.

"The Man and The Wolf" was one of few pieces Aragón read from an anthology "Wind Shifts", closing his reading with a poem titled "Poem."

Aragón was raised in San Francisco, Calif. His family was from Nicaragua, the birthplace of two of his biggest inspirations, Ernesto Cardenal, Catholic priest and major poet of the Spanish language, and Rubén Darío, known as the "father of modernism."

Aragón lived in Madrid, Spain for ten years where he studied Spanish literature and later taught English. He said his formal education in the Spanish language was a tool to complete works while he studied. "I grew up bilingual, then studied Spanish formally. It was a tool."

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