From one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music-to make the body shake and move to the rhythm of rhyme, to the pulse of words. Juan Felipe Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world-between two cultures, two homes. De uno de los poetas chicanos mas preeminentes que escribe hoy, aqui estan unos poemas que son como musica dulce-para hacerse el cuerpo a bailar y mover al rito de rimas, al pulso de palabras. Juan Felipe Herrera escibe en ingles y espanol sobre el gozo y la risa y a veces la confusion de crecerse en un mundo confundido entre dos culturas y dos hogares. |
