Juan Felipe Herrera - March 14, 2009

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UA Poetry Center, Tucson Festival of Books

Reading Series
Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera performs his poetry and speaks movingly about song, language, and family in a reading given alongside Sherwin Bitsui for the 2009 Tucson Festival of Books. Herrera's Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, published by the University of Arizona Press, was announced as the winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award just two days prior to this reading.

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Introduction
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by Randall Rodman Holdridge

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"Watering Cebolla While My Father Burns Leña"
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Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

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"Machofilia(s)"
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Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

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"I, Citlalli 'La Loca' Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Ninth Sun"
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Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

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"Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way"
Citation

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008.

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"Arizón maricopa tempe tu tierra roja"
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This track also includes a Question and Answer Session with Sherwin Bitsui.

Citation

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008.

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