Juan Felipe Herrera

Broschiertes Buch

Akrílica

Beschreibung

This new edition and new translation of Akrílica arrives now to expand the political and artistic possibilities that form our current horizon.

Autor

Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera's many collections of poetry include Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; Half of the World in Light New and Selected Poems , a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also the author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate, Calling The Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; and Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. His book Jabberwalking, a children's book focused on turning your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry, came out in 2018. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. He runs the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio at Fresno State.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Noemi Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 166mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781934819999
• ISBN-10: 1934819999
• Artikelnr.: 64052801