JUAN FELIPE
HERRERA
Juan Felipe Herrera served as the 21st U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. The son of migrant farm workers, he was educated at UCLA, Stanford University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poetry collections include Notes on the Assemblage (2015), 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 (2007), Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (2008), and Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (1999). Notes on the Assemblage was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Library Journal, Buzzfeed and NPR.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA & THE ANGELS OF CELERY
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It is all green —
listen to me:
see that explosion of cloud & leopard
of rebel dove & desolate wheels on the zapped corner
you can sew it in — here with
60's Buttons &
paisley patch & an asparagus wig from Ginsberg's supermarket
remember Whitman in there? That's him
call the crimson bull decorated in moon love & jasmine & afternoon clocks
call please you must do it you must do it now you must
see this see this in La Plaza of Viges where Mama Rumba was born
& her castanets of future sands & revolutionaries delirious
on the Río Grande Valley border escape ladders
& her belly timing the cosmos of Blacks & Spaniards so
we are here now Federico
we are scrubbing the ancient palaces with
your angels of celery your neon-neon heads ragged in Afro-Cubanismo
in Afro-Urban-Hip-Hop chekere bead
put it here smear it there
paste it out crawl into it & fold up the falling
with your ecstasy bodies of lily-shaped horns & daybreak blood
THE FRUIT FLY & ITS YEAST, ITS PROTEIN FUNCTION
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& its yearning its dragonfly
its solar eclipse its matrix
its book body the fruit fly & its yeast
the yeast & its protein
function & its
yearning its human
book its Darwinian yeast
its protein function yeast
it stays in its fruit fly
face & its twig its landscape
of fullness w/o the book
w/o
the dragonfly yearning
OCHRE YELLOW GREEN STONE HUICHOL CAMPO
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