Voted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library Journal Included in
Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year One of LitHub's
most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the
nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and
filled with hope. "Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new
hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something
else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective
pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to
create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed."-New
York Times "Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing
political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be."-NPR
"Juan Felipe Herrera's magnificent new poems in Every Day We Get
More Illegal testify to the deepest parts of the American dream-the
streets and parking lots, the stores and restaurants and futures
that belong to all-from the times when hope was bright, more like
an intimate song than any anthem stirring the blood."-Naomi Shihab
Nye, The New York Times Magazine "From Basho to Mandela, Every Day
We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson
in the history of resistance from a poet who declares, 'I had to
learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to
my self.' You hold in your hands evidence of who we really
are."-Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition "These poems talk
directly to America, to migrant people, and to working people.
Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and
beautiful and powerful."-Jose Olivarez, Author of Citizen Illegal
"The poet comes to his country with a book of songs, and asks:
America, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in
this book, there is a choral voice that teaches us 'to gain, pebble
by pebble, seashell by seashell, the courage.' The courage to find
more grace, to find flames."-Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after
two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe
Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America.
Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments
of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet
hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the
edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets,
the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a
shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility
of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the
conscience-filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and
many textures of every day in America. "Former Poet Laureate Juan
Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium-a
messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of
the United States . . ."-Carmen Gimenez Smith, author of Be
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