{"product_id":"juan-felipe-herrera-migrant-activist-poet-laureate-9780816549740","title":"Juan Felipe Herrera: Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Trevor Boffone \u003cbr\u003e Marina Bernardo-Flórez \u003cbr\u003e Manuel de Jesús Hernández-G. \u003cbr\u003e Whitney DeVos \u003cbr\u003e Michael Dowdy \u003cbr\u003e Osiris Aníbal Gómez \u003cbr\u003e Carmen González Ramos \u003cbr\u003e Cristina Herrera \u003cbr\u003e María Herrera-Sobek \u003cbr\u003e Francisco A. Lomelí \u003cbr\u003e Tom Lutz \u003cbr\u003e Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez \u003cbr\u003e Marzia Milazzo \u003cbr\u003e Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger \u003cbr\u003e Rafael Pérez-Torres \u003cbr\u003e Renato Rosaldo \u003cbr\u003e Donaldo W. Urioste \u003cbr\u003e Luis Alberto Urrea \u003cbr\u003e Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancisco A. Lomelí is professor emeritus and distinguished professor of Chicano\/a studies and Latin American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Osiris Aníbal Gómez is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454665527570,"sku":"9780816549740","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82cb7956-deab-4c7b-8098-a1eb5e96ea4c.jpg?v=1729869792","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/juan-felipe-herrera-migrant-activist-poet-laureate-9780816549740","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}