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For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading experts offers critical approaches on Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. It expertly demonstrates Herrera’s versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity. As a poet Herrera has had an enormous impact within and beyond Chicano poetics. He embodies much of the advancements and innovations found in American and Latin American poetry from the early l970s to the present. His writings have no limits or boundaries, indulging in the quotidian as well as the overarching topics of his era at different periods of his life. Both Herrera and his work are far from being unidimensional. His poetics are eclectic, incessantly diverse, transnational, unorthodox, and distinctive. Reading Herrera is an act of having to rearrange your perceptions about things, events, historical or intra-historical happenings, and people. The essays in this work delve deeply into Juan Felipe Herrera’s oeuvre and provide critical perspectives on his body of work. They include discussion of Chicanx indigeneity, social justice, environmental imaginaries, Herrera’s knack for challenging theory and poetics, transborder experiences, transgeneric constructions, and children’s and young adult literature. This book includes an extensive interview with the poet and a voluminous bibliography on everything by, about, and on the author. The chapters in this book offer a deep dive into the life and work of an internationally beloved poet who, along with serving as the poet laureate of California and the U.S. poet laureate, creates work that fosters a deep understanding of and appreciation for people’s humanity. Contributors: Trevor Boffone Marina Bernardo-FlÓrez Manuel de JesÚs HernÁndez-G. Whitney DeVos Michael Dowdy Osiris AnÍbal GÓmez Carmen GonzÁlez Ramos Cristina Herrera MarÍa Herrera-Sobek Francisco A. LomelÍ Tom Lutz Manuel M. MartÍn-RodrÍguez Marzia Milazzo Maria AntÒnia Oliver-Rotger Rafael PÉrez-Torres Renato Rosaldo Donaldo W. Urioste Luis Alberto Urrea Santiago Vaquera-VÁsquez

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Juan Felipe Herrera, the country’s twenty-first poet laureate, has been one of the United States’ most prolific and most inventive poets/writers and one of poetry’s greatest communitarians. Finally, a collection of essays that gives his work, including his children’s literature, the critical attention it has long merited."" —Brenda CÁrdenas, author of Boomerang.

Juan Felipe Herrera, the country's twenty-first poet laureate, has been one of the United States' most prolific and most inventive poets/writers and one of poetry's greatest communitarians. Finally, a collection of essays that gives his work, including his children's literature, the critical attention it has long merited. --Brenda Cardenas, author of Boomerang

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Francisco A. LomeÍ is professor emeritus and distinguished professor of Chicano/a studies and Latin American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Osiris AnÍbal GÓmez is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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