Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems

Juan Felipe Herrera · 2008 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A selection of the Chicano poet's work across three decades, with new poems, draws on farm-worker families, California cities, Mexican and Mayan myth and the speech of Spanish and English together. It is a retrospective volume, with no continuous story. Admitted as a co-winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award, with the granularity flagged.

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