Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

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Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH HER

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino Poet Laureate of the United States and son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in the migrant fields of California. Exuberant and socially engaged, reflective and healing, this collection of new work is brimming with the wide-open vision and hard-won wisdom of a poet whose life and creative arc have spanned chasms of culture in an endless crossing, dreaming and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HER

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: "In 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2020

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Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: A country boy leaves home to visit the far-off city and the seashore even farther away as he enjoys a vacation with his father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH HER

Herrera, Juan Felipe

Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet." -- Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HER

Herrera, Juan Felipe.

Summary: "For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and universal in its impact, themes, and approach. Often political, never fainthearted, his career has been marked by tremendous virtuosity and a unique sensibility for uncovering the unknown and the unexpected....

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HER