Originally released as a bilingual collection in 1989 by Stephen Kessler's Alcatraz Editions, Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poems of AKR???LICA starting in 1977, occasioned by the energy and dialogue that he encountered upon meeting writer and coconspirator Francisco X. Alarc???n (1954-2016). Through a new interview included here and through his own Visual Introduction, archival photographs from his travels across the Americas, and new art created in conversation with the collection, Herrera offers a rich set of references, ...
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Originally released as a bilingual collection in 1989 by Stephen Kessler's Alcatraz Editions, Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poems of AKR???LICA starting in 1977, occasioned by the energy and dialogue that he encountered upon meeting writer and coconspirator Francisco X. Alarc???n (1954-2016). Through a new interview included here and through his own Visual Introduction, archival photographs from his travels across the Americas, and new art created in conversation with the collection, Herrera offers a rich set of references, inspirations, and influences that shaped AKR???LICA while sharing his take on this singular book's place in his development as a poet and multimedia artist. This new edition and new translation of AKR???LICA arrives now to expand the political and artistic possibilities that form our current horizon. This project is not one of inclusion or recovery. This is a project of retrieval. We steal AKR???LICA away from literary institutions, away from the discipline of literature as such, and away from traditions of experimental poetics that should hope to claim it. Oriented toward the liveliness of the imagination, committed to fundamentally changing itself in order to meet the moment, AKR???LICA belongs somewhere else; it belongs in the hands of those finding one another in a gathering that has yet to take place. Edited by Anthony Cody, Carmen Gim???nez, & Farid Matuk Poetry. Latinx Studies.
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Very Good. Signed and inscribed by Herrera to Southwest poet Tony Moffeit. Creasing to the top corner. Translated by Stephen Kessler and Sesshu Foster with Dolores Bravo, Magaly Fernandez and the author. Text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Widely considered to be a groundbreaking book of translation and experimental poetics. Herrera was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2015-16.; 165 pages; Signed by Author.
