The Roots of a Thousand Embraces: Dialogues Commemorative Edition Contributor(s): Herrera, Juan Felipe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933149965 ISBN-13: 9781933149967 Publisher: Manic D Press
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" L (0.20 lbs) 64 pages |
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Publisher Description: Juan Felipe Hererra's writing fuses wide-ranging experimentalism with reflections on Mexican-American identity . . .--The New York Times In forty cantos, the poet explores the metaphysical relationship between Frida Kahlo, her art, her broken body, and cross-border consciousness. First published in 1994, this early work--his sixth book--reveals a deep sense of longing for all to be made whole again in spite of fractures--physical, metaphorical, cultural--bestowed by the world. From Prologue: A Second Body: Think on the time it takes a scar to heal, a river to rise -- an old woman to regain the tumbling She painted herself somewhere in-between Mexico and It is the healing of this metaphysical fracture too (which Juan Felipe Herrera was raised in a farm-working family in the San Joaquin Valley. A graduate of UCLA, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Stanford University, he has written numerous books. Herrera's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN USA Award. Former Poet Laureate of California and now United States Poet Laureate, he lives in Fresno. |
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