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Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera is the US Poet Laureate and was inspired by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movement and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance...view moreJuan Felipe Herrera is the US Poet Laureate and was inspired by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movement and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. His published works include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971–2007; Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream; Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas; Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de rayos; Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, a Pura Belpré Honor Book; Américas Award winners CrashBoomLove and Cinnamon Girl; Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; and The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza, which was adapted into a musical. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, and previously served as California Poet Laureate. He has taught at both California State University, Fresno, and University of California, Riverside, and held the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in Creative Writing. He lives in Fresno, California.view less
Books by Juan Felipe Herrera
Every Day We Get More Illegal Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkateFate Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Audiobooks by Juan Felipe Herrera
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5