Notes on the assemblage / Juan Felipe Herrera

Includes bibliographical references

It can begin with clouds -- Ayotzinapa: -- Ayotzinapa -- Ayotzinapa -- Y si el hombre con el choke-hold -- If the man with the choke-hold -- Almost livin' almost dyin -- View With No One: -- You & I belong in this kitchen -- Here and there -- Ourselves -- White dove-found outside Don Teriyaki's -- Notes on the assemblage -- On the verge of drowning -- You throw a stone -- Hard Hooks: -- Los Angeles barrio sonnet for Wanda Coleman -- Hard hooks that fold you down to your knees -- Bisbee Poetry Festival, Southern Arizona, 1985 -- Hey Phil -- Oda para Jose Montoya -- Ode for Jose Montoya -- Lucid And Undecipherable Tasks: -- Lucid and undecipherable tasks -- Soldier in the empty room -- I Do Not Know What A Painting Does: -- Jackrabbits, green onions & witches stew -- Tasmano -- En la media medianoche -- In the mid of midnight -- Fulgencio salio de Oaxaca hacia El Norte -- Fulgencio left Oaxaca toward El Norte -- I do not know what a painting does -- Radiante (s) -- Borderbus: -- Tomorrow I leave to El Paso -- Borderbus -- Soap factory -- But I was the one that saw it (drone aftermath) -- Numbers, patterns, movements & being -- Untitled, unfettered- -- I am Kenji Goto -- Song out here -- We Are Remarkably Loud Not Masked: -- Thich Nhat Hanh I step with you -- We are remarkably loud not masked -- Half-Mexican -- Smiling dragon -- Saturday nite at the Buddhist Cinema -- Poem By Poem: -- Poema por poema -- Poem by poem -- Gracias -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.

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 from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate 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 back again.

Poems primarily in English, some poems in Spanish only, and some in both English and Spanish.

Poet Laureate of the United States (2015)