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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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Imagine (Hardcover)
Juan Felipe Herrera; Illustrated by Lauren Castillo
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From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, here are stirring
poems that read like music. Awarded the Pura Belpre Honor for this
book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and
laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an
upside-down, jumbled-up world-between two cultures, two homes. With
a crazy maraca beat, Herrera creates poetry as rich and vibrant as
mole de ole and pineapple tamales ...an aroma of papaya ...a clear
soup with strong garlic, so you will grow & not disappear.
Herrera's words are hot & peppery, good for you. They show us
what it means to laugh out loud until it feels like flying.
After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student.
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Cerca / Close (Board book)
Juan Felipe Herrera; Illustrated by Blanca Gomez
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Lejos / Far (Board book)
Juan Felipe Herrera; Illustrated by Blanca Gomez
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Juan Felipe Herrera
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From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera comes the powerful
journey of Chicano teen Lucky Z. A former skateboarder who's
anything but lucky, he finds triumph and power through his voice.
Raw, cool, real-this novel in verse is a shout-out to teens to find
the extraordinary in the ordinary, to raise their voice and find
strength in the sheer and simple power of expression. Lucky Z has
always lived on the edge-he loved to skateboard, to drag race, to
feel alive. But things have taken a turn-he's living with new
foster parents and a tragic past. An accident changed everything.
And only his voice will set him free. As you feel Lucky breathe in
life again, you will want to shout out with him.
The Books We Love in 2016 - The New Yorker Best Poetry Collections
of 2015 - The Washington Post Best Books 2015: Poetry - Library
Journal Best Books of 2015 - NPR Books 16 Best Poetry Books of 2015
- BuzzFeed Books Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino Poet
Laureate of the United States and son of Mexican immigrants, grew
up in the migrant fields of California. Exuberant and socially
engaged, reflective and healing, this collection of new work from
the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate is brimming with the
wide-open vision and hard-won wisdom of a poet whose life and
creative arc have spanned chasms of culture in an endless crossing,
dreaming and back again. "[This year] Juan Felipe Herrera's Notes
on the Assemblage has been a ladder of hope ..."--Ada Limon, The
New Yorker "Juan Felipe Herrera's family has gone from migrant
worker to poet laureate of the United States in one generation. One
generation. I am an adamant objector to the Horatio Alger myth of
pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, but Herrera's story is one of
epic American proportions. The heads carved into my own Mount
Rushmas would be Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Frida Kahlo, El
Chapulin Colorado, Selena, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Notes from the
Assemblage further carves out Herrera's place in American
letters."--David Tomas Martinez "At home with field workers, wage
slaves, the homeless, little children, old folks, artists,
traditionalists, the avant-garde, students, scholars and prisoners,
the bilingual Juan Felipe Herrera is the real thing: a populist
treasure. He will fulfill his appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate
with the same high energy, savvy, passion, compassion, commitment
and playfulness that his art and life's have always embodied.
Bravo! Bravo!"--Al Young "While reporters can give you the what,
when, and where of a war, a poet with the enormous gifts of Juan
Herrera can give you its soul."--Ishmael Reed "I am proud that Juan
Felipe Herrera has been appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, bringing his
truthful, beautiful voice to all of us universally. As the first
Chicano Laureate, he will empower all diverse cultures."--Janice
Mirikitani "Herrera is ...a sometimes hermetic, wildly inventive,
always unpredictable poet, whose work commands attention for its
style alone . ..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."--The
New York Times "Herrera has the unusual capacity to write
convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can
be."--National Public Radio
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Imagina (Spanish, Hardcover)
Juan Felipe Herrera; Illustrated by Lauren Castillo
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The Upside Down Boy is award-winning poet Juan Felipe Herrera's
engaging memoir of the year his migrant family settled down so that
he could go to school for the first time. Juanito is bewildered by
the new school, and he misses the warmth of country life.
Everything he does feels upside down. He eats lunch when it's
recess; he goes out to play when it's time for lunch; and his
tongue feels like a rock when he tries to speak English. But a
sensitive teacher and loving family help him to find his voice and
make a place for himself in this new world through poetry, art, and
music. Juan Felipe Herrera's playful language and the colorful,
magical art of Elizabeth G mez capture the universal experience of
children entering a new school feeling like strangers in a world
that seems upside down-at first.
Join us across the nation with
"http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/news/AragonHome.php" The Wind
Shifts ON TOUR The Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works
by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century.
Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi
Ayala, Richard Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna,
and Urayoan Noel. All of the writers included in this volume have
published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have
published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published
more than one book at the time of selection. This results in a
freshness that energizes the enterprise. Certainly there is poetry
here that is political, but this is not a polemical book; it is a
poetry book. While conscious of their roots, the artists are
equally conscious of living in the contemporary worldfully engaged
with the possibilities of subject and language. The variety is
tantalizing. There are sonnets and a sestina; poems about traveling
and living overseas; poems rooted in the natural world and poems
embedded in suburbia; poems nourished by life on the U.S.?Mexico
border and poems electrified by living in Chicago or Los Angeles or
San Francisco or New York City. Some of the poetry is traditional;
some is avant-garde; some is informed by traditional poetry in
Spanish; some follows English forms that are hundreds of years old.
There are love poems, spells that defy logic, flashes of hope, and
moments of loss. In short, this is the rich and varied poetry of
young, talented North American Latinos and Latinas.
Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and
academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso
poets about the nature of poetry and its practice. At the heart of
this anthology lies the intersection of history, language, and the
human experience. The collection explores the ways in which a
people's history and language are vital to the development of a
poet's imagination and insists that the meaning and value of poetry
are necessary to understand the history and future of a people. The
Latinx community is not a monolith, and accordingly the poets
assembled here vary in style, language, and nationality. The pieces
selected expose the depth of existing verse and scholarship by
poets and scholars including Brenda Cardenas, Daniel Borzutzky,
Orlando Menes, and more than a dozen more. The essays not only
expand the poetic landscape but extend Latinx and Latin American
linguistic and geographical boundaries. Writers, educators, and
students will find awareness, purpose, and inspiration in this
one-of-a-kind anthology.
From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a
collection of poems to take your breath away. With dazzling speed
and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera sends readers rocketing through
verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words
that will make you want to shout, dance, and read out loud. Lika a
wild ride in a fast car, "Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream"
moves at breakneck speed, a post-Lorca journey across the new
millennium terrain. Words careen through space and time, through
blighted urban landscapes, past banjos and bees, past AIDS faces
and mad friars, past severed heads and steel-toed border-crosser
boots. To the rhythm of "The Blue Eyed Mambo that Unveils My
Lover's Belly" and the sounds of the Last Mayan Acid rock band,
Herrera races through the hallucinations of a nation that remains
just outside of paradise. With dazzling poems that roar from the
darkest corners of our minds toward an ecstatic celebration of the
lushness of language, "Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream" is
a celebration of a world that is both sacred and cruel, a world of
"Poesy Chicano style undone wild" by one of the most daring poets
of our time.
Includes an audio CD of the author reading
For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his
experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America
through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and
universal in its impact, themes, and approach. Often political,
never fainthearted, his career has been marked by tremendous
virtuosity and a unique sensibility for uncovering the unknown and
the unexpected. Through a variety of stages and transformations,
Herrera has evolved more than almost any other Chicano poet, always
re-inventing himself into a more mature and seasoned voice. Now, in
this unprecedented collection, we encounter the trajectory of this
highly innovative and original writer, bringing the full scope of
his singular vision into view. Beginning with early material from A
Certain Man and moving through thirteen of his collections into
new, previously unpublished work, this assemblage also includes an
audio CD of the author reading twenty-four selected poems aloud.
Serious scholars and readers alike will now have available to them
a representative set of glimpses into his production as well as his
origins and personal development. The ultimate value of bringing
together such a collection, however, is that it will allow us to
better understand and appreciate the complexity of what this major
American poet is all about.
Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised
immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a
bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal
entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe
Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times to craft his most
personal work to date. "Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler" is a
river of faces and phrases, jottings and reflections--a personal
pilgrimage and collective parade of love, mock-prophecy, and
chiste. Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and
minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his
participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of
postmodern America. He uses broad strokes to paint a historical,
social, and familial portrait that moves from the twilight of the
nineteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, then takes up a
finer brush to etch the eternal tension between desire and
frustration, hope and disillusionment, violence and tenderness.
Here are transamerican sutras spanning metrocenters from Mexico
City to San Francisco, or slinking across the border from Juarez to
El Paso. Outrageous, rhythmic lists--"Foodstuffs They Never Told Us
About," "Things Religion Makes Me Do"--that fire the imagination.
Celebrations of his Plutomobile that "runs on ham hawks & bird
grease," and of Chicano inventions such as cilantro aftershave and
"the art of eating Vicks VapoRub with your dedos." Pushing forms to
the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as
well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods,
stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo
kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of
paradise. "Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler" is a crucible of
flavorful language meant to be rolled lazily on the mind's
tongue--and then swallowed whole to let its hot and savory
sweetness fill your soul.
The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter
of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan
villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has
composed a stirring poem sequence--published in a bilingual
format--written in response and homage to those who died, as well
as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican
highlands and throughout the Americas. "Thunderweavers" is a story
of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished
residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It
deals with the destruction of a people and all evidence of their
lives: "Why am I Tzotzil?
Why was I born in this land of so many storms?
I plant corn and yet I reap gunpowder
I plant coffee and yet I reap mad spirits
I plant my house and yet I reap the viscera
of this fallen earth." The sections are written in the voices of
four women from a family in Chiapas: Xunka, a lost twelve-year-old
girl; Pascuala, the mother; grandmother Maruch; and Makal, an older
daughter who is pregnant. Each voice weaves into the others and
speaks for still other members of the larger Mayan and Native
American family. Herrera, a major Chicano poet known for his
expansive, surreal writing, here takes on a spare and lyrical style
in the tradition of Rosario Castellanos, recalling as well the
canto legacy of Pablo Neruda and the testimonial call of Ernesto
Cardenal. "Thunderweavers" is a poetic account of transcendence and
continuity in the midst of chaos, suffering, and war-a Mayan cycle
of personal, physical, and spiritual struggles that Indian women
have been continuously engaged in for th-a past five hundred years.
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