Border-crosser with a Lamborghini dream : poems / by Juan Felipe Herrera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrera, Juan Felipe.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Camino del sol

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Poetry.

Mexican Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 99 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1999]

Summary:

Like a wild ride in a fast car, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream moves at breakneck speed, a post-Lorca journey across the new millennium terrain. Words careen through space and time, through blighted urban landscapes, past banjos and bees, past AIDS faces and mad friars, past severed heads and steel-toed border-crosser boots. To the rhythm of "The Blue Eyed Mambo that Unveils My Lover's Belly" and the sounds of the Last Mayan Acid rock band, Herrera races through the hallucinations of a nation that remains just outside of paradise.

With dazzling poems that roar from the darkest corners of our minds toward an ecstatic celebration of the lushness of language, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream is a celebration of a world that is both sacred and cruel, a world of "Poesy mad / & Chicano style undone wild" by one of the most daring poets of our time.

Contents:

punk half panther

blood on the wheel

blood night café

abandoned blood

blood suites

say blood man

blood mouse manifesto

blood sockets

blood gang call

blood from the native son

blood tysons

2pac blood

aztec blood sample

chicken blood townships

blood fourteen

ezekiel's blood

sugarman's blood (yeah, you)

last blood words

queen blood america

my rice queens

this is the z

border-lovin' & sinister

one thousand strings of oblivion & a bucket of grave dirt

a banjo you left unbridled with rage

a bee head rests on my shoulder

this semi-skull worker

the blue-eyed mambo that unveils my lover's belly

blues pack last mile

selena in corpus christi lacquer red

pick up your severed head & let me get on, baby

explode this letter w/ this

edward hopper visits my el paso soul

border-crosser with a lamborghini dream

swish guitar for the abused federations

slashed epistemology & wire cutters

jute-boy at the naturalization derby

gestapo bowls on the plank

from an extinct ukraine, i sing

wixárika

strip/from chinatown

subzero

kaliwey

tatéi

border wire/spina

stroke this locket scar

kauyumári, i sing to you

diaspora. night.

notes for "broadway indian"

angel wrestler (with blond wig)

simple poet constructs hunger

young kuramoto

lord jim

five directions to my house

i found myself in the studio of a tabla master

we are all saying the same thing.

Other Format:

Online version: Herrera, Juan Felipe. Border-crosser with a Lamborghini dream.

ISBN:

0816519315

9780816519316

0816519323

9780816519323

OCLC:

39505348