Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream

Name: Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream
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ISBN: 9780816519323

by Juan Felipe Herrera

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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 through verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words that will make you want to shout, dance, and read out loud. Like a wild ride in a fast car, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream moves at breakneck speed, a post-Lorca journey across the new millennium terrain. Words careen through space and time, through blighted urban landscapes, past banjos and bees, past AIDS faces and mad friars, past severed heads and steel-toed border-crosser boots.

To the rhythm of "The Blue Eyed Mambo that Unveils My Lover's Belly"and the sounds of the Last Mayan Acid rock band, Herrera races through the hallucinations of a nation that remains just outside of paradise. With dazzling poems that roar from the darkest corners of our minds toward an ecstatic celebration of the lushness of language, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream is a celebration of a world that is both sacred and cruel, a world of "Poesy Chicano style undone wild" by one of the most daring poets of our time.

Publisher:: University of Arizona Press
ISBN:: 9780816519323
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 99
Authors:: Juan Felipe Herrera
Published Date:: 1998-12-01
Language:: English

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About Juan Felipe Herrera

The 21st Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera served from 2015 to 2017 as the first Latino to hold the position. Born in Fowler, California, to Mexican migrant farmworkers, he earned a BA from UCLA, an MA in social anthropology from Stanford University, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His collection Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, shared that year with August Kleinzahler. He served as California Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2015 and is professor emeritus at California State University, Fresno.

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