{"product_id":"every-day-we-get-more-illegal-paperback","title":"Every Day We Get More Illegal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVoted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/em\u003e Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eLitHub's\u003c\/em\u003e most Anticipated Books of the Year \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera's magnificent new poems in \u003cem\u003eEvery Day We Get More Illegal \u003c\/em\u003etestify to the deepest parts of the American dream--the streets and parking lots, the stores and restaurants and futures that belong to all--from the times when hope was bright, more like an intimate song than any anthem stirring the blood.\u003cstrong\u003e--Naomi Shihab Nye, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Basho to Mandela, \u003cem\u003eEvery Day We Get More Illegal\u003c\/em\u003e takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares, 'I had to learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to my self.' You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are.\u003cstrong\u003e--Jericho Brown, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems talk directly to America, to migrant people, and to working people. Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and beautiful and powerful.\u003cstrong\u003e--Jos  Olivarez, Author of \u003cem\u003eCitizen Illegal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet comes to his country with a book of songs, and asks: America, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in this book, there is a choral voice that teaches us 'to gain, pebble by pebble, seashell by seashell, the courage.' The courage to find more grace, to find flames.\u003cstrong\u003e--Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets, the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvery Day We Get More Illegal\u003c\/em\u003e is a jolt to the conscience--filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium--a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States . . .--\u003cstrong\u003eCarmen Gimenez Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eBe Recorder \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera was the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015-2017, the first Latino to receive this honor. The son of migrant farm workers, he was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His numerous poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eNotes on the Assemblage \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), \u003cem\u003e187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 \u003c\/em\u003e(2007), \u003cem\u003eHalf of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), and \u003cem\u003eBorder-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream\u003c\/em\u003e (1999). \u003cem\u003eNotes on the Assemblage\u003c\/em\u003e was named a Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, The Washington Post, Library Journal, NPR, and BuzzFeed\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry, Herrera has written short stories, young adult novels, and children's literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2012, Herrera was named California's poet laureate. He has won the Hungry Mind Award of Distinction, the Focal Award, two Latino Hall of Fame Poetry Awards, and a PEN West Poetry Award. In April 2016, Herrera received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times. His other honors include the UC Berkeley Regent's Fellowship as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Stanford Chicano Fellows. He has also received several grants from the California Arts Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. His creative work often crosses genres, including poetry, opera, and dance theater. His children's book, \u003cem\u003eThe Upside Down Boy \u003c\/em\u003e(2000), was adapted into a musical. His books for young people have won several awards, including \u003cem\u003eCalling the Doves \u003c\/em\u003e(2001), winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and \u003cem\u003eCrashBoomLove\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), a novel-in-verse for young adults, which won the Americas Award. His poetry collection\u003cem\u003eHalf of the World in Light\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize in 2009. Herrera lives in Fresno, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758116864288,"sku":"9780872868281","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f073315f1a8366125e382b63d71dcfb7.webp?v=1780118455","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/every-day-we-get-more-illegal-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}