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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864627 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100576310 02 0872864626 03 9780872864627 15 9780872864627 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border</TitleText> <Subtitle>Undocuments 1971-2007</Subtitle> 1 A01 Herrera, Juan Felipe Juan Felipe Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera was initiated into the Word by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movimiento and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. He is the Toms Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California - Riverside. His published works include Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas, and Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de Rayos. 01 eng 278 00 278 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Latin America 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 Breaking news: Juan Felipe Herrera Receives PEN West Poetry Award and the PEN Oakland National Literary Award for 2008! For his collection of verse spanning over three decades, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border, Juan Felipe Herrera has been awarded this year's PEN West award for outstanding poetry. City Lights congratulates the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books/review/Burt2-t.html?">"wildly inventive"</a> (New York Times) Juan Felipe! Juan Felipe Herrera's writings are charged with theatrical and athletic energies. A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, gathered from more than thirty-five years of work in various genres, these "undocuments" are the record of an epic journey across many different borders: boundaries of nations, state lines, city limits, edges of farmland, crossings and mixtures of languages and literary forms. From Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, Herrera remembers everything and gives back to his native places and to the family, friends and compañeros of his Mexican/American/Chicano odyssey a scrapbook, a logbook, a journal, a multiform confession of proud hybridity and indigenous optimism. A sustained manifesto of resistance and affirmation, these rants, manifestos, newspaper cut-ups, bits of street theatre, anti-lectures, love poems and riffs tell the story of what it's like to live outlaw and brown in the United States. Illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. "Papers? Permits? Documents? Identification? Open this book anywhere and find the authorization to keep on, permission to be who you are in your own skin, license to cultivate your inner guerrilla, angelic visas of transcendent transit. This book is the passport to a country under construction." — from the Introduction by Stephen Kessler Juan Felipe Herrera is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Author of 21 books, he is also a community arts leader and a dynamic performer and actor. He is the son of Mexican immigrants and grew up in the migrant fields of California. Listen to an interview with Juan Felipe Herrera <a target="blank" href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_080408k.cfm">here</a> Praise for 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: "¡Por fin! A manifesto you can dance to. Juan Felipe Herrera's searing laments and soulful riffs don't just electrify. They Mexify."—Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana "I've been reading Juan Felipe Herrera since he was little baby poet in the 1970s, and this volume, which collects published and unpublished community pieces from the last three decades, gives me an almost painful pleasure. He is the eternal teen poet, the timeless Beat, the premodern postmodern. He is Walt Whitman, Ezekiel, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Scheherazade, Carlos Fuentes, Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, Groucho and Karl Marx, Emily Dickinson, Santana, Lao Tzu, and Octavio Paz rolled up and squeezed through dreams of Aztlan and justice and jazz. He is Floricanto. And 187 Reasons, more than anything he has written, is his autobiography."—Tom Lutz, author of Doing Nothing, Crying, and Cosmopolitan Vistas "Juan Felipe Herrera has written a giant verbal mural bursting with the inventiveness, rhythmic colorings, social engagement and humor — in forms of poetry, litany, and autobiography — that reveal not only the greatness but the absolute necessity of Chicano culture. This is a major generational work by a brilliant practitioner of the art of living the word."—Jack Hirschman, poet laureate of the City of San Francisco "There are at least 187 reasons why you should read Herrera's 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. A very abbreviated list would include: Because it is some of the strongest poetry, memoir, satire, and theater that you will find in one book- Because within it are over forty years of artfully recorded passion, anger, engagement, humor and love- Because it will carry you across, over and through languages, borders, and cultures revealing truths, asking hard questions, and insisting we see the power not only on of writer as witness, and the power of writer as memory, but the power of writer as conscious revolutionary striving towards a more just and humane world- Because it is a pleasure that will awaken and engage all of your senses as it touches and does not let go of your heart."– devorah major author of Brown Glass Windows, Open Weave, street smarts and Where River Meets Ocean. "Aware, phosphorescent and immediate, this is language brilliantly engaged. Juan Felipe Herrera is simultaneous lighthouse and lightning, the flash that carries the warning and the live wire. For three decades now Herrera’s hot-colored Surrealism has transmitted one of the strongest border radio signals of alt-poetics from the Mission District to St. Mark’s Poetry Project, from the Taos Poetry Circus to Bisbee, from the first Floricantos of the Bay Area or cross-border exchanges in Tijuana and D.F., Chiapas and Yucatan to San Diego, L. A., Austin and beyond. This poetics makes a practice of making a difference. Here available together for the first time are wide-ranging selections from dozens of Herrera’s outstanding 'experimental’ mixed-genre books, many of which had eccentric or limited original distribution. Contextualized with photos, historical notes and chronology, 187 Reasons serves up both continental panorama and meta-document in the practice of a poetics that comes alive with startling vitality---across borders of political silence and censorship of the Other, semiotic deserts and actual killing fields."– Sesshu Foster author of Atomik Aztex and American Loneliness: Selected Poems 02 Herrera provides a fresh and accessible perspective on the crucial human rights issue of immigration through his poetry, prose, and performance. Catch the 187 Express! 08 "Herrera is . . . a sometimes hermetic, wildly inventive, always unpredictable poet, whose work commands attention for its style alone. . . Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed." New York Times Book Review 08 "187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border is more than an explosive, majestic book of selected poems that gathers Herrera's writings on immigration and border issues. It is a 360-page manifesto that offers barbed-wire cures and 187 ways to dig tunnels, cross deserts, and finish long days of hard work in a country that insists on punishing its cheap labor force . . . 'Blood on the Wheel' is a great American poem that should be studied alongside Allen Ginsberg's Howl . . . 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border is a major accomplishment in an era when immigration issues are being mangled by politicians in denial." –Ray González Bloomsbury Review 08 "[Herrera] writes with a Beat-like torrent of sling-shots and trippy hallucination, equally at home watching Chicanos in 'Toyota gangsta monsters' with 'oye como va in the engines' as he is imagining himself a punk half-panther. More than once in 187 Reasons, his poems read like border-blasted takes on Allen Ginsberg's epic American spew, Howl. Except Herrera's America is a 'grid of inverted serapes' where the best minds of his generatedangel-headed hipsters in Indian drum circles high on Thelonious Monk and flush with 'a Califas glow'have been driven mad by the Minutemen, Proposition 187 and miles of new border fencing." Josh Kun Los Angeles Times 08 "Herrera's poetics and politics are constantly on the go, energizing each page of this extraordinary Floricanto, where power and poetry meet." Rigoberto Gonzlez El Paso Times 08 "'You build the fence we climb the fence/ You hammer it up we rock it down/ You draw the line we erase the line.' As the debate over immigration policy burns hotter and Americans across the nation are brought into the discussion, artist/activist Herrera provides a fresh, smart, and witty perspective on this human rights issue through this collection of his poetry and prose. Herrera is well known for his more than 30 years of public readings and performances and has been a major voice of witness and conscience in the Chicano community, asserting its dreams and decrying its nightmares. Essentially a manifesto, these writings are first and foremost maps to a safe place, ways across various and dubious borders, epic journeys that include descents into hell. Herrera goes beyond the easy rhetoric and self-righteous passions, giving us what are, in fact, affirmationsor momentary stays against the confusion: 'You play baseball we play baseball/ You watch Oprah we watch Oprah/ You shop at Costco we shop at CostcoYou have a family we have a familia.' Vital for any Chicano or immigration collection, this would be an asset to contemporary literature collections as well. Highly recommended." Louis McKee Library Journal 08 "Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the preeminent voices in 20th-century Chicano poetry. Since the early 1970s, hes devoted his multimedia work to challenging the notions of what it is to be a Mexican American. His poetry and prose is both provocative and experimental, possessing a drive that can only come from the revolutionists heart. And Herreras heart is devoted to busting traditional literary forms out of their tightly synched seams, giving voice to a people so often left voiceless by American culture and its insular tendencies187 Reasons is not a staid anthology. Rather, it invigorates as a hybrid scrapbook/journal/log of emotional and physical borders; psychological connections to time and space; diverse voices and the mottled songs they produce; delicately crocheted genetic connections to the Mexican patria and political barriers imposed on ChicanosHis collection is a journey of the soul, race and identity, power and struggle. And at times, even an expedition ending in cultural exultation. You dont need 187 reasons to open Herreras book; onethe compelling truth." 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