by Juan Felipe Herrera

From one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music-to make the body shake and move to the rhythm of rhyme, to the pulse...Read More

Publication Date: May 1998

by Juan Felipe Herrera

I want to see what is on the other side of the dustWhen the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Juan Felipe Herrera

I want to see what is on the other side of the dustWhen the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Juan Felipe Herrera

I want to see what is on the other side of the dustWhen the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2006

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Juanito Paloma, his mother Lucha, and his elderly father Felipe, are a tiny family who, after years of working in the fields of California's Central Valley, move to San Francisco's...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2005

by Juan Felipe Herrera

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...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Juan Felipe Herrera

A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized universe. A new millennium cubist manifesto against decrepit political...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2001

by Juan Felipe Herrera

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2000

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal...Read More

Publication Date: May 2002

by Francisco Aragon

The Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2007

by Juan Felipe Herrera

For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2008

by Juan Felipe Herrera

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

Publication Date: Sep 1999

by Artemio Rodriguez

The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loterA-a images. They were modern adaptations, made...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2001

by Juan Felipe Herrera

A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants,...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2008

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera's playful language and the colorful, magical art of Elizabeth Gomez capture the universal experience of entering a new school and feeling like a stranger in a world...

Publication Date: Jan 2000

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Now available in paperback, poet Juan Felipe Herrera's bilingual memoir paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. His rich, evocative prose re-creates the joy of eating under the...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2001

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Every Sunday Juanito helps his grandmother sell old clothes at the flea market. Romping from booth to booth among the rainbow-colored tents under the sun, Juanito and his friends fulfill...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2002

by Juan Felipe Herrera

In this bilingual English - Spanish story, a girl comes to the rescue of her brother when he is detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Publication Date: Jun 2003

by Juan Felipe Herrera

At his new school or on the soccer field, all everyone wants to know is why Tomasito is in a wheelchair. His father gives Tomasito a new pet to make...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2004

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Fresh from the country, Juanito is bewildered by his new school. Everything he does feels upside down: he eats lunch when it's recess and goes out to play when it's...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2007

by Juan Felipe Herrera

After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student.

Publication Date: Oct 1999

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky,...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1995