Juan Felipe Herrera

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Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream

The University of Arizona Press

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.

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Giraffe on Fire

The University of Arizona Press

Exciting and original, cutting-edge and risk-taking, Giraffe on Fire is a breathtaking addition to a respected body of work by a poet not afraid to speak out about how poetry reflects the raw beauty and truth of life.

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Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler

The University of Arizona Press

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.

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The Wind Shifts

New Latino Poetry

Edited by Francisco Aragón; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
The University of Arizona Press
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Senegal Taxi

The University of Arizona Press

Juan Felipe Herrera is at his best in his first original collection in several years. In Senegal Taxi, Herrera brings attention to global oppression and injustice through poems that address genocide and hope in Africa.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Half of the World in Light

New and Selected Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, this unprecedented collection shows the trajectory of the highly innovative and original poet Juan Felipe Herrera.
 

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Poetry of Resistance

Voices for Social Justice

The University of Arizona Press

Poetry of Resistance offers a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing. Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights.

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Snake Poems

An Aztec Invocation

The University of Arizona Press

This special edition of Snake Poems offers Nahuatl, Spanish, and English renditions of 104 poems based on Nahuatl invocations and spells that have survived more than three centuries, with a modern ecopoetic response from the late Francisco X. Alarcón.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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CrashBoomLove

A Novel in Verse

University of New Mexico Press

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Latinx Poetics

Essays on the Art of Poetry

Edited by Ruben Quesada; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
University of New Mexico Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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