Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera
Reading Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Introduction -3661
by Randall Rodman Holdridge
"Watering Cebolla While My Father Burns Leña"-3662
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.
"Machofilia(s)" -3663
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.
"I, Citlalli 'La Loca' Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Ninth Sun"-3664
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.
"Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way"-3665
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008.
"Arizón maricopa tempe tu tierra roja"-3666
This track also includes a Question and Answer Session with Sherwin Bitsui.
Annotation:
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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Series: Tucson Festival of Books
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center, Tucson Festival of Books
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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