{"product_id":"roots-of-a-thousand-embraces-book-juan-felipe-herrera-9781933149967","title":"The Roots of A Thousand Embraces","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuan Felipe Hererra's writing fuses wide-ranging experimentalism with reflections on Mexican-American identity . . .--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn forty cantos, the poet explores the metaphysical relationship between Frida Kahlo, her art, her broken body, and cross-border consciousness. First published in 1994, this early work--his sixth book--reveals a deep sense of longing for all to be made whole again in spite of fractures--physical, metaphorical, cultural--bestowed by the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Prologue: A Second Body: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThink on the time it takes a scar to heal, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea river to rise -- an old woman to regain the tumbling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003epowers of her busted arms -- a young woman (calling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eherself Frida) to re-structure her shattered vertebrae, to\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebe caught up with a body-cast, a second body which she\u003cbr\u003einhabits -- for the rest of her life; this is precious to me, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat is all. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe painted herself somewhere in-between Mexico and\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe United States -- in the open space of the jaws; between\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe mandibles of the jaguar and the nuclear turbine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is the healing of this metaphysical fracture too (which\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003emay invoke further breakage) that concerns me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in a farm-working family in the San Joaquin Valley. A graduate of UCLA, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Stanford University, he has written numerous books. Herrera's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN USA Award. Former Poet Laureate of California and now United States Poet Laureate, he lives in Fresno.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393451790609,"sku":"CIN1933149965G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053730070801,"sku":"NIN9781933149967","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1933149965.jpg?v=1751347919","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/roots-of-a-thousand-embraces-book-juan-felipe-herrera-9781933149967","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}