Juan Felipe Herrera : Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate / edited by Francisco A. Lomelí and Osiris Aníbal Gómez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lomelí, Francisco A., editor.

Gómez, Osiris Aníbal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book is a wide-ranging collection of critical approaches on the highly accomplished poet Juan Felipe Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. The chapters in this book expertly demonstrate the author's versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Juan Felipe Herrera: A Maverick Alchemist of Chicano Poetics / Francisco A. Lomelí

Part I. Critical Perspectives on Juan Felipe Herrera's Poetics

1. The Chicano Cultural Poetics of Juan Felipe Herrera: The Artist as Shaman and Showman / Rafael Pérez-Torres

2. "Tender Chaos": Hospitality in Juan Felipe Herrera's Poetics / Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

3. From Fowler to El Salvador: Juan Felipe Herrera's Global "We" / Michael Dowdy

4. "To Go into America as I Go into Myself": Chicana/o Indigeneity, the Indigenous Other, and the Ethnographic Gaze in Juan Felipe Herrera's Mayan Drifter / Marzia Milazzo

5. Poetic Language, Indigenous Heritage, the Environmental Imaginary, and Social Justice in Juan Felipe Herrera's Rebozos of Love / We Have Woven / Sudor de Pueblos / On Our Back / María Herrera-Sobek

6. Afterlives of Antropoesía: Juan Felipe Herrera and the Poetics of (Un)Documentation / Whitney DeVos

7. Juan Felipe Herrera's Voice in Spanish: Local and Global Pan-Ethnic Relations and Resistance / Manuel de Jesús Hernández-G.

Part II. On Camaraderie and Poetics: Other Authors Reflect on Juan Felipe Herrera's Impact on Chicano Literature

8. A Rascuache Prayer: Reflections on Juan Felipe Herrera, My Homeboy Laureate / Luis Alberto Urrea

9. Gravy Donuts, 24/7: A Personal Reading of Juan Felipe Herrera / Tom Lutz

10. Weaving, Drifting, Assembling: Memoria(s) from a Migrant's Notebook of Travel / Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez

Part III. The Child-Poet Within Me: Toward an Analysis of Juan Felipe Herrera's Children and Young Adult Literary Production

11. Juan Felipe Herrera's Illustrated Books for Young Readers: Chicano Children's Literature con Cilantro / Manuel Martín-Rodríguez.

12. Girlhood and Writing as Sustenance in Juan Felipe Herrera's Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box / Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera

13. Juan Felipe Herrera's Children's Picture Books: An Affirmation of Chicano/a Identity through Visual Literacy and Bilingualism / Marina Bernardo-Flórez and Carmen González Ramos

Part IV. Mapping the Sojourn of a Maverick

14. The Poet, the Playwright, and the Citizen: An Interview with U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera / Francisco A. Lomelí and Osiris Aníbal Gómez

15. Juan Felipe Herrera: Notes on the Formation of an Artist / Renato Rosaldo

16. Bibliography by and on Juan Felipe Herrera 2022 / Donaldo W. Urioste

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8165-4976-1

OCLC:

1351787539