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Juan Felipe Herrera

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born

December 27, 1948 in Fowler, California, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.juanfelipe.org/

genre

Young Adult, Poetry, Short Stories

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Juan Felipe Herrera is the only son of Lucha Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera; the three were campesinos living from crop to crop on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern California and the Salinas Valley. Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats award in 1997. He is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist who draws from real life experiences as well as years of education to inform his work. Community and art has always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-seventies, when he was director of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, an occupied water tank in Balboa Park converted...more

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Books by Juan Felipe Herrera

Average rating: 3.92 · 345 ratings · 89 reviews · 24 distinct works

	187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments, 1971-2007 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas by Juan Felipe Herrera, Elly Simmons (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives by Juan Felipe Herrera, Artemio Rodriguez, Rupert Garcia (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse 3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Downtown Boy 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Upside Down Boy/El nino de cabeza 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Super Cilantro Girl/La supernina del cilantro 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Juan Felipe Herrera

“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.”
― Juan Felipe Herrera

tags: latino , poetry

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