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OverviewFirst Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized universe. A new millennium cubist manifesto against decrepit political machines. A mystic song in search of birth and love. In this new collection of poems, Juan Felipe Herrera's natural talent for capturing the raw dimensions of reality merges with his wild imagination and technical prowess. Things, names, places, histories, herstories, desires, wills, minds, and their effects and progeny are re-mixed, re-mastered, and re-cast into a new narrative theater. Characters in a constant and stubborn rush, appearance, disappearance, and flow--with, against, and for each other--create the fire and give birth to the hallucinatory spotted and leaf-eating, long-necked child. Exciting and original, cutting-edge and risk-taking, Giraffe on Fire is a breathtaking addition to a respected body of work by a poet not afraid to speak out about how poetry reflects the raw beauty and truth of life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Juan Felipe HerreraPublisher: University of Arizona Press Imprint: University of Arizona Press Weight: 0.177kg ISBN: 9780816519859ISBN 10: 0816519854 Pages: 104 Publication Date: 30 December 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsFirst Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2002 The premier Chicano poet in America returns with an experiment in time and language. Long prose-poem sequences combine with Spanish texts and English fragments that blossom in galactic proportions. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars. Bloomsbury Review Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. . . . His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing forced transition. World Literature Today First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2002 The premier Chicano poet in America returns with an experiment in time and language. Long prose-poem sequences combine with Spanish texts and English fragments that blossom in galactic proportions. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars. --Bloomsbury Review Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. . . . His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing forced transition. --World Literature Today This is the poet in tune with the universe. --Virgil Suarez First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2002 The premier Chicano poet in America returns with an experiment in time and language. Long prose-poem sequences combine with Spanish texts and English fragments that blossom in galactic proportions. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars. Bloomsbury Review Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. . . . His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing forced transition. World Literature Today First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2002 The premier Chicano poet in America returns with an experiment in time and language. Long prose-poem sequences combine with Spanish texts and English fragments that blossom in galactic proportions. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars. Bloomsbury Review Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. . . . His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing forced transition. World Literature Today """The premier Chicano poet in America returns with an experiment in time and language. Long prose-poem sequences combine with Spanish texts and English fragments that blossom in galactic proportions. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars.""--Bloomsbury Review ""Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. . . . His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing forced transition.""--World Literature Today ""This is the poet in tune with the universe.""--Virgil Suárez ""Some of the most exquisite images one can find in U.S. Latino poetry.""--Lauro Flores, editor of The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature" Author InformationJuan Felipe Herrera's recent books include Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Thunderweavers/Tejedoras de rayos, Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems (illustrated by Artemio Rodríguez), Crashboomlove, and The Upside-Down Boy/El niño de cabeza. He is a professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. He lives in Fresno with his soul partner, performance artist and poet Margarita Luna Robles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |