Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera (English) Paperback Book

Description: Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A State of the Union from the nations first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope. Publisher Description Included in Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHubs Most Anticipated Books of the Year!A State of the Union from the nations 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"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. In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud, this book makes it clear exactly why Juan Felipe Herrera continues to be recognized and sought after for his work. You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are."-Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition"In Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera shows off all of his styles. 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 RepublicIn 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."Few poets have more laurels upon which they could rest than Juan Felipe Herrera. As the former Poet Laureate of the United States hes done more for poetry, on the page and off, than most anyone living. But in his new Every Day We Get More Illegal, Herrera not only stretches, complicates, broadens his own oeuvre, he challenges and expands what might be possible in the space of a poem."-Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf"A prolific voice for justice, Herrera continues to see the world with compassion, a goofy sort of humor, and a liberationists roving kind of care. These are warm poems for hard times."-John Freeman, Lit Hub Executive Editor Author Biography Juan Felipe Herrera was the 21st. In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry, Herrera has written short stories, young adult novels, and childrens literature.In 2012, Herrera was named Californias poet laureate. He has won the Hungry Mind Award of Distinction, the Focal Award, two Latino Hall of Fame Poetry Awards, and a PEN West Poetry Award. In April 2016, Herrera received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times. His other honors include the UC Berkeley Regents Fellowship as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Stanford Chicano Fellows. He has also received several grants from the California Arts Council.Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. His creative work often crosses genres, including poetry, opera, and dance theater. His childrens book, The Upside Down Boy (2000), was adapted into a musical. His books for young people have won several awards, including Calling the Doves (2001), winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and CrashBoomLove (1999), a novel-in-verse for young adults, which won the Americas Award. His poetry collectionHalf of the World in Light was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize in 2009. Herrera lives in Fresno, CA. Details ISBN 0872868281 ISBN-13 9780872868281 Title Every Day We Get More Illegal Author Juan Felipe Herrera Format Paperback Year 2020 Pages 96 Publisher City Lights Books GE_Item_ID:129865117; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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