In the Cannery the Porpoise Soul
“In the Cannery the Porpoise Soul” from Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera. Copyright © 2008 Juan Felipe Herrera. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. This material is protected from unauthorized downloading and distribution.
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Poet Juan Felipe Herrera
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Social Commentaries, Jobs & Working, Activities
Biography
The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His numerous poetry collections include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007, Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (2008), and Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (1999). In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections . . .
Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Jobs & Working, Activities
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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