{"product_id":"every-day-we-get-more-illegal-9780872868281b","title":"Every Day We Get More Illegal","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eVoted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/span\u003e Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLitHub's \u003c\/span\u003emost Anticipated Books of the Year!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA State of the Union from the nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets, the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEvery Day We Get More Illegal\u003c\/span\u003e is a jolt to the conscience—filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Former Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium—a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States . . .\"—Carmen Gimenez Smith, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBe Recorder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.\"—\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.\"—\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42972579627088,"sku":"9780872868281B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/every-day-we-get-more-illegal-9780872868281b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}