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Half of the World in Light : New and Selected Poems /

"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 ma...

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Autor principal: Herrera, Juan Felipe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Foreword by Francisco A. Lomelí; A Certain Man; A Certain Man; In the Cannery the Porpoise Soul; Mar 3; Let Me Talk of the Years/500 (L.A. 1969); Gallery of Time ; Rebozos of Love We Have Woven Sudor de Pueblos On Our Back; Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way; Quetzalcóatl No Sorrow; Ipal Nemohuani; Los chapulines verdes vuelan; Arizón maricopa tempe tu tierra roja; Vamos a cantar; Exiles of Desire; Exiles; Black Tenor on Powell Street; Children of Space; The Dreamboxer; At the Exodus Gym/Valencia Street; Module Metropolis: Documents; Literary Asylums.
  • Nightpainters: The Dusk of La Guardia Nacional of El SalvadorWar Voyeurs; Facegames; Cimabue, Goya, Beginnings; Inside the Jacket; Crescent Moon on a Cat's Collar; Under the Sombrero of Reagan's Coiffure; Inferno St.; My Mother's Coat Is Green; The Man with the Cactus Heart; Odalisque; Movieola; Foreign Inhabitant; Akrílica; Kaos Beneath the Buttons/Acrylic in Blue; Kaos debajo de los botones/Akrílica en azul; Suicide in Hollywood: Lupe Velez (circ. 1923)/Serigraph of a Mexican Actress; The Boy of Seventeen; Quentino; The Secret of My Arms; El secreto de mis brazos.
  • Quentino's Journal: FragmentsExile Boulevard; 24th & Autumn; She Wants the Ring Like He Wants the Suit of Scars/But; Ella quiere el anillo como aquel quiere el traje de la cicatriz/Pero; Radio Couples; Nuclear Green Night: Choreo-Poem in 2 Scenes; Arc; Grafik ; Gráfika; Night Train to Tuxtla; Night Train to Tuxtla; Tatarema; One Is for Maáx, One Is for Jabalí; Memoria(s): from an Exile's Notebook of the Future; City Paint; Norteamerica, I Am Your Scar ; Fuselage Installation; Writing by the Hand; The Sea During Springtime; Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual; Alligator.
  • Letter to the Hungry Students of BerlinThe Roots of a Thousand Embraces: Dialogues; I. Mobius; IV. Jade Mother Goddess; IX. Tropical Parrots; XII. Style, Genre & Craft; XIX. The Game of Color; XXVIII. The Barber Sculptor; XXXVII. The Mirror in the Canopy; Love After the Riots; 7:30 pm/Thursday; 8:00 pm; 9:20 pm; 12:01 am; 2:11 am; 3:03 am; 3:07 am; 3:45 am; 4:21 am; 4:48 am; 5:30 am; 6:01 am; Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream; Angel Wrestler (with blonde wig); Simple Poet Constructs Hunger; Young Kuramoto; Lord Jim; Five Directions to My House.
  • I Found Myself in the Studio of a Tabla MasterWe Are All Saying the Same Thing; Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives; La Lotería; La Palma; El Fruto; El Vuelo; El Maíz; El Fuego; El Ferrocarril; La Serpiente; El Diablo; La Víctima; La Canoa; El Cometa; La Rosa; Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de rayos; Xunka; Pascuala; Maruch; Makal; Giraffe on Fire; Giraffe on Fire; Beneath Your Skin; Bajo tu piel; Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler; Óyeme, Mamita: Standing on 20th & Harrison; New York City Angelic: Josh, My Son, Said; Undelivered Letters to Víctor #8.