ISBN: 9780816522156

Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal e… Mehr…

Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times to craft his most personal work to date. "Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler" is a river of faces and phrases, jottings and reflections--a personal pilgrimage and collective parade of love, mock-prophecy, and chiste. Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of postmodern America. He uses broad strokes to paint a historical, social, and familial portrait that moves from the twilight of the nineteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, then takes up a finer brush to etch the eternal tension between desire and frustration, hope and disillusionment, violence and tenderness. Here are transamerican sutras spanning metrocenters from Mexico City to San Francisco, or slinking across the border from Juarez to El Paso. Outrageous, rhythmic lists--"Foodstuffs They Never Told Us About," "Things Religion Makes Me Do"--that fire the imagination. Celebrations of his Plutomobile that "runs on ham hawks & bird grease," and of Chicano inventions such as cilantro aftershave and "the art of eating Vicks VapoRub with your dedos." Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise. "Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler" is a crucible of flavorful language meant to be rolled lazily on the mind's tongue--and then swallowed whole to let its hot and savory sweetness fill your soul. Media > Book, [PU: University of Arizona Press]<

2002, ISBN: 0816522154

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[EAN: 9780816522156], [SC: 32.65], [PU: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2002)], CHICANO, POET LAUREATE, POETRY, SIGNED FIRST EDITION - LATIN AMERICAN LIT AND HISTORY NOISBN, SIGNED … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780816522156], [SC: 32.65], [PU: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2002)], CHICANO, POET LAUREATE, POETRY, SIGNED FIRST EDITION - LATIN AMERICAN LIT AND HISTORY NOISBN, SIGNED first edition - First printing, a trade paperback original. A work by this US poet laureate which defies characterization . "Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of postmodern America. . . Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 186 pp. plus 4 photographs. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new), Books<

2002, ISBN: 9780816522156

The University of Arizona Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 191 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-08-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.65 kg, Verkaufsrang: 151, Karibische & Lateinameri… Mehr…

The University of Arizona Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 191 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-08-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.65 kg, Verkaufsrang: 151, Karibische & Lateinamerikanische Lyrik, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Hispanoamerikanische Lyrik, US-amerikanische Lyrik, Lateinamerikanische Literatur, Weltliteratur, Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbücher, Format: Illustriert, The University of Arizona Press, 2002<