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       New US poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera
       By: agate Date: August 14, 2015, 7:01 pm
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       Juan Felipe Herrera has been named the US poet laureate. He was
       the child of migrant farm workers, and many of his poems are an
       innovative amalgam of both Spanish and English:
       [quote][Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
       BY JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
       
       
       Let us gather in a flourishing way
       with sunluz grains abriendo los cantos
       que cargamos cada día
       en el young pasto nuestro cuerpo
       para regalar y dar feliz perlas pearls
       of corn flowing árboles de vida en las cuatro esquinas
       let us gather in a flourishing way
       contentos llenos de fuerza to vida
       giving nacimientos to fragrant ríos
       dulces frescos verdes turquoise strong
       carne de nuestros hijos rainbows
       let us gather in a flourishing way
       en la luz y en la carne of our heart to toil
       tranquilos in fields of blossoms
       juntos to stretch los brazos
       tranquilos with the rain en la mañana
       temprana estrella on our forehead
       cielo de calor and wisdom to meet us
       where we toil siempre
       in the garden of our struggle and joy
       let us offer our hearts a saludar our águila rising
       freedom
       a celebrar woven brazos branches ramas
       piedras nopales plumas piercing bursting
       figs and aguacates
       ripe mariposa fields and mares claros
       of our face
       to breathe todos en el camino blessing
       seeds to give to grow maiztlán
       en las manos de nuestro amor
       “[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]” from Half of the World in
       Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera. Copyright
       © 2008 Juan Felipe Herrera. Reprinted by permission of the
       University of Arizona Press.[/quote]
       He might be contributing to the enrichment of English with an
       influx of Spanish vocabulary. At least he will have succeeded in
       familiarizing English-speaking US people with the idea of
       Spanish as a living language spoken by many people among us.
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