Every day we get more illegal / Juan Felipe Herrera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrera, Juan Felipe, author.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish language materials--Bilingual.

Spanish language materials.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : City Lights Books, [2020]

Summary:

"In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets, the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience-filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Address book for the firefly on the road north #1

America We Talk About It

Open

Basho & Mandela

You Just Don't Talk About It

Listen to Elias Canetti

Don't Push the Button

Address book for the firefly on the road north #2

[interruption]

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

Ko Un Says

Touch the Earth (once again)

Roll Under the Waves

Fuimos visibles / We Were the Visible Ones.

Notes:

The poems "Fuimos visibles / We were the visible ones" and "come with me" are written in English and Spanish.

ISBN:

9780872868281

0872868281

OCLC:

1120095056