Notes on the Assemblage
A Poetry, Race book. This volume of poems is challenging and singular - a...
The Books We Love in 2016 - The New YorkerBest Poetry Collections of 2015 - The Washington PostBest Books 2015: Poetry - Library JournalBest Books of 2015 - NPR Books16 Best Poetry Books of 2015 - BuzzFeed BooksJuan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino Poet Laureate of the United States and son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in the migrant fields of California.Exuberant and socially engaged, reflective and healing, this collection of new work from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate is brimming with the wide-open vision and hard-won wisdom of a poet whose life and creative arc have spanned chasms of culture in an endless crossing,...
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- Pages: 104 pages
- ISBN: 9780872866973 / 0
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I don't get a lot of poetry, but I ~think~ I got at least a handful of the poems in this collection. I thought the imagery was well done and the emotion conveyed well, too. (I read this because it was included on a B&N list of what Rory Gilmore might be reading now. #nerdalert) This volume of poems is challenging and singular - a worthy book for a poet laureate. The style is a little more free than my usual taste, but most pages benefit from re-reading and the subject matter is fully relevant to any potential reader.I enjoyed in particular the various ways Spanish and English were blended together in several... 3.5 stars.
