Juan Felipe Herrera

Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives

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Poetry. LOTERIA CARDS AND FORTUNE POEMS pairs the masterful artwork of Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez with the poetry of Juan Felipe Herrera, one of America's finest Chicano writers. Here is a collection of linoleum cuts and poetry based on the imagery of la loteria, a popular folkloric game of chance that originated in 18th-century colonial Mexico and is still quite popular today. Rodriguez's prints are haunting and exquisite, and Herrera's hallucinatory, sometimes poignant poems were written in direct response to them. Together, they map the modern heart of this richly symbolic popular tradition. LOTERIA is a unique collaboration, a seaml… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Garcia, Rupert (Solist) / Rodríguez, Artemio (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-0-87286-359-0
EAN: 9780872863590
Produktnummer: 9315082
Verlag: City Lights
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Masse: H17.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.5 cm 318 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Juan Felipe Herrera is 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, The Upside Down Boy (2000), was adapted into a musical. His books for young people have won several awards, including Calling the Doves (2001), winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and CrashBoomLove (1999), a novel-in-verse for young adults, which won the Americas Award. His poetry collection Half of the World in Light was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize in 2009. Herrera lives in Fresno, CA.Artemio Rodríguez is an artist from Michoacán, Mexico, born in 1972. He came to the United States in 1994 and lived for a time in Los Angeles, where he began the work that would ultimately become the Lotería series. He has been living in the Bay Area since 1996, and his work is shown in galleries and museums throughout Mexico and the U.S.