Giraffe on Fire (Camino del Sol)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816519854 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Four Stars Really good experimental/bi-lingual poetry.
Exciting and original, cutting-edge and risk-taking, Giraffe on Fire is a breathtaking addition to a respected body of work by a poet not afraid to speak out about how poetry reflects the raw beauty and truth of life.. In this new collection of poems, Juan Felipe Herrera's natural talent for capturing the raw dimensions of reality merges with his wild imagination and technical prowess. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized universe. Characters in a constant and stubborn rush, appearance, disappearance, and flow—with, against, and for each other—create the fire and give birth to the hallucinatory spotted and leaf-eating, long-necked child. Things, names, places, histories, herstories, desires, wills, minds, and their effects and progeny are re-mixed, re-mastered, and re-cast into a new narrative theater. A mystic song in search of birth and love. A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A new millennium cubist manifesto against decrepit political machines
Giraffe on Fire is a challenge of poetic codes, spoken colors, and linguistic formulas. It is the poetry of an artist who has moved beyond the plugged-in circus of his discoveries to find that his writing hands are wide open to the stars."—Bloomsbury Review "Although Herrera describes himself as a Chicano poet, the bilingual poems in Giraffe on Fire have less to do with cultural identity than with issues of self and survival in a world marked by rapid flux. Herrera's poems lift the Mexican experience beyond its borders and drop it among terrains of surviving perception, where the voices of immigrants are the echoes of future boardroom lineups. His intricate narrative technique involves weaving the seemingly spontaneous grunts, howls, and imprecations of psyches undergoing force