Love After the Riots - Softcover

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880684284 ISBN 13: 9781880684283

Publisher: Curbstone Books, 1996

Synopsis

A "fin-de-siecle epic", Juan Felipe Herrera's After the Riots chronicles a ten-and-a-half hour love affair through the streets of Los Angeles, revealing a world marred by chaos and redeemed by beauty. These are wild poems that force us to consider the nature of our modern-day lives, the world around us, and the prospect of love in the shadow of hopelessness. 

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About the Author

The child of migrant workers, Juan Felipe Herrera was initiated into the Word by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movimiento and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. Since 2005, he has been the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California - Riverside. His published works include Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas, and Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de Rayos. In 2011, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017.

Reviews

Chicano educator and writer Herrera, the author of fiction and several books of poetry (e.g., Night Train to Tuxtla, LJ 8/94), chronicles a ten-and-a-half-hour love affair, from a Thursday evening to early the next morning. Indeed, the titles of all the poems carry hour and minute notations. The actual sequence of events is less precise, however, as the poet often obscures temporal dimensions with the surreal, hermetic juxtaposition of images ("Giotto drags a stiletto,/ an embroidered cape, & cannot be seen/ through the fire engines."). This swirling nocturne, which transcends the quotidian and experiential to a dimension that often eludes the reader's grasp, is not an essential acquisition.?Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., Dublin, Ohio
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Edition details

• Publisher: Curbstone Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880684284
• ISBN 13: 9781880684283
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64