Every Day We Get More Illegal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrera, Juan Felipe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Poetry.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : City Lights Books, 2020.

Summary:

Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. 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.

Contents:

America we talk about it

Open

Basho & Mandela

You just don't talk about it

Listen to Elias Canetti

Don't push the button

[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

Enuf

Interview w/a border machine

Color tense

i am not a paid performer

& no one knew them

Everyday we get more illegal

todavía estoy aquí the deported father said

border fever 105.7 degrees

i want to speak of unity

Ten thousand lives

come with me.

Notes:

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

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ISBN:

9780872868380

0872868389

OCLC:

1493013744