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Bilingual English/Spanish. Award-winning children's book author and poet Juan Felipe Herrera offers a story of self-empowerment and friendship.

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 person...

In 40 cantos, the poet embarks on a journey of discovery into the metaphysical meaning of Frida Kahlo's artistic life.

An inspiring tribute to Hispanic Americans who have made a positive impact on the worldThis visually stunning book showcases twenty Hispanic and Latino American men and women who have made outstanding contributions to the arts, politics, science, humanitarianism, and athletics. Gorgeous portraits complement sparkling biographies of Cesar Chavez, Sonia Sotomayor, Ellen Ochoa, Roberto Clemente, and many more. Complete with timelines and famous q...

Juan Felipe Herrera, son of Mexican immigrants, is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., the nation's first Latino laureate.

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The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.

Like a wild ride in a fast car, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream moves at breakneck speed, a post-Lorca journey across the new millennium terrain. Words careen through space and time, through blighted urban landscapes, past banjos and bees, past AIDS faces and mad friars, past severed heads and steel-toed border-crosser boots. To the rhythm of "The Blue Eyed Mambo that Unveils My Lover's Belly" and the sounds of the Last Mayan Acid rock...

PROEZAS Dramas y poesías para días especiales Estimados amigos: Él mundo necesita lo que Dios depositó dentro de nosotros para beneficio de nuestros contemporáneos y de las futuras generaciones. Por lo tanto, no cabe la menor duda que este libro de dramas y poesías llamado "PROEZAS" nos llega en una manera totalmente completa. Aquí ustedes pueden encontrar 12 dramas, así como 130 poesías que pueden usar en los diferentes días especiales que la...

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Office es la suite ofimática más utilizada en el mundo. Contiene las aplicaciones Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access y Outlook, así como otros programas, como Visio, FrontPage y Publisher. Esta nueva versión rep una importante evolución, ya que constituye un sistema completo e integrado que mejora la productividad de usuarios, equipos y empresas. El Manual Imprescindible de Office 2003 le ayudará a conocer el funcionamiento de la nueva suite de M...

The collected performance poetry from a progenitor of Chicano spoken word, spanning thirty-seven years.

The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death.In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence -- published in a bilingual format -- written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas.Thunderweavers is a stor...

Journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for the author's Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. This book attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population.

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.

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...

This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations.