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Audio Recording Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads from his work

Hispanic-American poet Juan Felipe Herrera reading from his work

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Title

  • Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads from his work

Summary

  • Mr. Herrera reads from his following works: Half of the world in light : new and selected poems, Senegal Taxi, and Notes on the assemblage.

Names

  • Herrera, Juan Felipe
  • Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Contents

  • From Half of the world in light: new and selected poems: Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way (07:50); Vamos a cantar (10:30); Exiles (12:08); Facegames, Inside the Jacket (16:50); Facegames, Foreign Inhabitant (18:42); Thunderweavers/ Tejedoras de rayos, Xunka (22:16); Thunderweavers/ Tejedoras de rayos, Pascuala (23:42); Thunderweavers/ Tejedoras de rayos, Makal V. (25:10); La plazita (28:01) -- From Senegal Taxi: Mud Drawing No. 1 The Village Ant (31:10); Mud Drawing No. 2 The Antonov Bomb (31:50); Mud Drawing No. 3 The Kalashnikov AK-47 (33:07); Mud Drawing No. 5 The Village Fly (34:21); Mud Drawing No. 7 The Village Ant (35:30); Mud Drawing No. 13 Sahel, the Village Girl (36:44); Mud Drawing No. 16 Ibrahim, the Village Boy (37:35); Mud Drawing No. 24 Abdullah, the Village Boy with One Eye (39:02) -- From Notes on the Assemblage: It Can Begin with Clouds (41:37); Ayotzinapa (English) (43:28); Ayotzinapa (Spanish) (45:14); You throw a stone (47:32); Poem by poem (48:40) ; Poema por poema (50:42)

Headings

  • -  United States--Poetry
  • -  Mexico--Poetry

Notes

  • -  Poems in English and Spanish.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape.
  • -  Recorded Sep. 11, 2015 at the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • 1 sound file (53:03 min.) : digital, WAV file (24 bit, 96 kHz)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AHLOT0092

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016686193

Access Advisory

  • Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Hispanic Reading Room.

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Hispanic Division

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Chicago citation style:

Herrera, Juan Felipe, and Archive Of Hispanic Literature On Tape. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads from his work. 2015. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016686193/.

APA citation style:

Herrera, J. F. & Archive Of Hispanic Literature On Tape. (2015) Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads from his work. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016686193/.

MLA citation style:

Herrera, Juan Felipe, and Archive Of Hispanic Literature On Tape. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reads from his work. 2015. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016686193/>.