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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Herrera, Juan Felipe.
Series:
Camino Del Sol Series
Camino del sol
Latino literature
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mexican Americans--Poetry.
Mexican Americans.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 99 p. ; 23 cm.).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.
Summary:
From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away.With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera sends readers rocketing through verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words that will make you want to shout, dance, and read out loud.
Contents:
Intro
contents
punk half panther
blood on the wheel
blood night cafe
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' &amp
sinister
one thousand strings of oblivion &amp
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 &amp
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 &amp
wire cutters
jute-boy at the naturalization derby
gestapo bowls on the plank
from an extinct ukraine, i sing
broadway indian
wixarika
strip / from chinatown
subzero
kaliwey
tatei
border wire / spina
stroke this locket scar
kauyumari, i sing to you
diaspora. night.
notes for "broadway indian
we are all saying the same thing
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.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-8165-3305-9
OCLC:
304155466

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