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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007
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, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what it’s like to live outlaw and brown in the United States.

Juan Felipe Herrera is a professor of creative writing at the Universityof California, Riverside. The author of twenty-one 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.

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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007
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, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what it’s like to live outlaw and brown in the United States.

Juan Felipe Herrera is a professor of creative writing at the Universityof California, Riverside. The author of twenty-one 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.

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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007

187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007

by Juan Felipe Herrera
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007

187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Overview

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, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what it’s like to live outlaw and brown in the United States.

Juan Felipe Herrera is a professor of creative writing at the Universityof California, Riverside. The author of twenty-one 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780872864627
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 11/01/2007
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Juan Felipe Herrera has received numerous awards and fellowships. The author of 21 books, including fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and children's books, he is also a community arts leader, working with at-risk youth and migrant communities. He is also a dynamic performer and actor who has appeared on stage and in film.

What People are Saying About This

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

"Herrera's searing laments and soulful riffs don't just electrify. They Mexify."--(Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of Around the Bloc)

Sesshu Foster

"Aware, phosphorescent and immediate, this is language brilliantly engaged."--(Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztek)

Devorah Major

"Some of the strongest poetry, memoir, satire, and theater that you will find in one book."

Jack Hirschman

"A major generational work by a brilliant practitioner of the art of living the word."--(Jack Hirschman, SF poet laureate)

Tom Lutz

"[Herrera] is the eternal teen poet, the timeless Beat, the premodern postmodern."

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Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
Other American Poetry
Hispanic American/Latino Poetry
American poetry->20th century
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Male authors
Mexican American authors->Poetry
2008 PEN Center USA Literary Award Winners

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