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Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Juan Felipe Herrera


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Congratulations to Juan Felipe Herrera, who was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate for 2015-2016, the first Latino poet to receive this honor!

Lotera Cards and Fortune Poems pairs the masterful artwork of Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez with the poetry of Juan Felipe Herrera, one of America's finest Chicano writers.

Here is a collection of linoleum cuts and poetry based on the imagery of la lotera, a popular folkloric game of chance that originated in 18th-century colonial Mexico and is still quite popular today. Rodriguez's prints are haunting and exquisite, and Herrera's hallucinatory, sometimes poignant poems were written in direct response to them. Together, they map the modern heart of this richly symbolic popular tradition.

Lotera is a unique collaboration, a seamless union of word and image, and of Mexican and Chicano sensibilities. A commonly shared tradition has engendered a brilliant and inspiring leap across borders into a game of life with many ways to win.

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  • Title Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
  • Author Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 244
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher City Lights Publishers, San Francisco
  • Date 2001-01
  • ISBN 9780872863590
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino

About the author

Juan Felipe Herrera is a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. His creative work often crosses genres, including poetry, opera and dance theater. His children's book, The Upside Down Boy (2000), was adapted into a musical. His books for young people have won several awards, including Calling the Doves (2001), winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and CrashBoomLove (1999), a novel-in-verse for young adults, which won the Americas Award. His poetry collection Half of the World in Light was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize in 2009. Herrera lives in Fresno, CA.

Artemio Rodrguez is an artist from Michoacn, Mexico, born in 1972. He came to the United States in 1994 and lived for a time in Los Angeles, where he began the work that would ultimately become the Lotera series. He has been living in the Bay Area since 1996, and his work is shown in galleries and museums throughout Mexico and the U.S.

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