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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EL ADAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the shadow of the lizards
Last Line: Stop singer. Call him, he's waiting with your ticket, too
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL AGUILA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all ye warriors, all ye poets of el norte
Last Line: Will you be the eagle, the cacti or the hiss?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ALACRAN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woke up this morning, had my fried mangos
Last Line: With his shelled back reminiscent of my punk childhood %my tender disintegrations
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have visited more often
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have visited more often
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have visited more often
Last Line: I should have touched them
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ARBOL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was your aged apprentice -- many years
Last Line: Drilling up to my ten thousand kisses
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ARCANGEL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I arrived -- you called
Last Line: You just spittin' beans
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ARMADILLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the blues-master, mathematician
Last Line: My art, my sad-song suit of centuries
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL AUSENTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say I've been under the weather. Yeah
Last Line: For the rhythms, the solar razor winds
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL AVESTRUZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take me to the taj -- there I will roam
Last Line: The ones about our happiness, our long-necked %dances. Go now, little one. Go
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL AVION, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies & gentlemen. You, in the altar
Last Line: We shall land there in that meager swallow-pool
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL BANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone. Inside the steel cage
Last Line: All the songs live, all the lives
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL BRUJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every morning, I ring the corn, sing
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL BRUJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every morning, I ring the corn, sing
Last Line: Who thirsts? Here is the water %the crown-spirit you called for
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CABALLERO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please, sir below, did you know
Last Line: Thinking about rising up, about speaking?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CABALLITO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The idea falters. No idea. Falters
Last Line: No idea. Drink, ride, strip your shirt
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CAMELLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey you, hey %travel hump, time-fur thinker
Last Line: To take it by foot or by hoof
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CANGREJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shoo-bop, sweetheart!
Last Line: Play these violins to the green jazz piers
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CAZADOR, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time, there was an elephant
Last Line: Which way? Which direction, which? %lawyer said, stop
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CIELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dome of triangles and slaughtered warriors
Last Line: All this opens as I taste patchouli on your knees
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CIRCO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From yin to fullness, a guffaw at the pit
Last Line: Call it joy, call it she-hair %this negative of all negatives
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL COLGADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me tell you about it
Last Line: It was the light, say it was the dawn
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL COMETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said, when the star of rumi burns azul
Last Line: All our eyes will explode all the eyes -- in praise
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CORAZON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In veracruz, where the light is colonial
Last Line: These romantic nails, arrowmatic expectations
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL CUCHILLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my midnight erotica. When
Last Line: Give it the last word, wrap it in steel
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL DANZANTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ate my frijoles after the night-stomp, in chalma
Last Line: This coiled & flat devoured love
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL DIABLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear was expected to wash down by the rivers
Last Line: You? So, it grew up, on its own, this brooding %orphan in our garden
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL DIOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey corazonsito %I am back from the races. Been a long time, huh?
Last Line: I am short on change, put it that way, okay?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ERMITANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the arch of capitalism, or rather
Last Line: My heart is accustomed. The song is different %the song is rebellious
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL FERROCARRIL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the revolution, we waited by the ceiba tree
Last Line: The mountains of the south in despair
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL FRUTO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The apple wasn't our true origin
Last Line: It was king executive, demi-god of the new business
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL FUEGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've prayed to her so many times
Last Line: Form blows out of her belly,. My true night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL FUEGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've prayed to her so many times
Last Line: From blows out of her belly. My true night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL GALLO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream again
Last Line: All along in this seamless wicked night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL GATO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't think this is the way it is
Last Line: Behind the curtains, the way the dream falls %from the owner's head -- to my plate
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL GIGANTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So he's listened to you for centuries, yes
Last Line: This hatchwork of reddish men and bluish dogs
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL GLOTON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meet el gloton, mr. Eat-it-now-fried
Last Line: He wants sugar-milk now -- as the worlds dissipate %shoot eons into the void
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL HERIDO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mighty antonio went to the usual nite-spot
Last Line: Of the void, the nebula denying itself %the wound, yes, the wound
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL HIJO PRODIGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was lost. I was cast as an exile
Last Line: I returned to a stranger. I was that stranger
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL INFIERNO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am boppin' at the under-club
Last Line: Entrails, erotic, concentric, electric
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL INSPIRADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For light years, in green-bulb bedrooms
Last Line: My hands so busy with emptiness & blur
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL JOROBADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Been living on the outskirts
Last Line: This is the hunger I bury, I said
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL LEON, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king is dead %the children sing
Last Line: My clawing feet, on their heads
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL LUCHADOR, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us call him weeping, mr. Llanto
Last Line: Now will you crawl %out of the mouse hole?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MAGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You take the sword, the poblano of oaxaca
Last Line: You sweat out the sweetness, the all -- yours
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MAIZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the speaker
Last Line: And voice your bones in my infinity light
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL MAIZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the speaker
Last Line: And voice your bones in my infinity light
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MAL GOBIERNO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. Pulpo, dr. Blue goya of tank sauce and fury
Last Line: Comes alive in the teeth that smile and burn
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MOJADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sour races, the time-quilted feet
Last Line: You want to run with me, esta noche?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MONO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guitarra. Guitarra. Six strings
Last Line: My gaze through mountains or flesh
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MUNDO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say sweetheart %wazzup wit the world on your cranky back?
Last Line: Without you there is no path, no place to live it out?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL MURCIELAGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upside down heaven-kid, be the blood
Last Line: In between, the register of sparkles
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL NOPAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head swims in the aftertaste
Last Line: My dad jacket applauds your kisses %your runaway flowers
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL OBRERO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream number one: chiapas goes free in the green
Last Line: Dream number ten: a las cinco de la tarde
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL PAYASO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sixties album face, in my paisley
Last Line: Pluck my bones and receive my smiles in neon
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL PECESITO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High above the levels of the crown
Last Line: Above, see its headlong collapse
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL PERRO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dreams %I smooch the basilica
Last Line: This road, its venom
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL SOL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So dance with me
Last Line: So many destructions left alone without light
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL SOLDADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never been so hongry. So many bodies in
Last Line: The lost fires. My hunger without a mouth
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL VENADO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mountains of nayarit, I am the advisor
Last Line: Sing of petroleum and skins hanging
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL VIEJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I survive, that is all. Tobacco, copper lips
Last Line: That is all, a nasty shift of upside-down %pianos, faces and eyes
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL VUELO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close your eyes, now -- we go
Last Line: To a silvery hand ahead %the feminine dome
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


EL ZAPATISTA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the zapatista, this lacandon
Last Line: Of ammo, your halo made with our mud
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA BANDERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So %they fight over you
Last Line: This aroma of storms
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA BICICLETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were going to the park
Last Line: Losing us, in one rocking second
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA BOTELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 100 proof mata perro, street-kill dog
Last Line: With its deep-cupped crazy tongue
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA CABRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The goat is my favorite. In jive beard
Last Line: Ripping its heart out. For the moment %chew on some of this
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA CAIDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man is just beginning. He is at the tip
Last Line: Where I am going, he says. At last I know
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA CAMPINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say bay, so I got a job. Yeah
Last Line: The grimace inside this building. Listen up
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA CANOA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late, time to leave. To let go
Last Line: I am not who I am either. It is time %to leave. It is late
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA ESCALERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are hobbling up, as usual, up the dome
Last Line: What happens in the oven %will happen to us
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA ESPADA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies & gentlemen %call me senorita spear ii
Last Line: Birth, cross your legs, aspire, aim
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA ESTRELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will tell you. My five-pointed heart
Last Line: Dissipate in each other's arms. Cut souls %above chimney stacks
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA EVA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember that man with a little cheese
Last Line: Gestapo breastplate fashion, my anger-deadening naked strut
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA GALLINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One eye sees all
Last Line: What matters is the eye, its fury-seed %the total exit
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA GUITARRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mi guitarra conoce todo. My guitar
Last Line: Herself as a guitar, the omnivorous eater %of this nine-headed universe
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA LAGARTIJA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ese loco, say dude %you are growing on me, sabes?
Last Line: Swerve your doors, tilt the wheel
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA LOTERIA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep, in this hurricane fiasco
Last Line: Without remorse or regret, with relish
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


LA LOTERIA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep, in this hurricane fiasco
Last Line: Without remorse or regret, with relish
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA MANO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The left-handed angel was punished
Last Line: She draws the sun, the dead-eyed orb, the shining %one that leads us
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA MIGRA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is your twin without the other-half
Last Line: His borderlands so infinite
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA MOSCA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an enigma at your feet, a few
Last Line: Its slender, bodies, how could we speak of all this?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA MUERTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My word against theirs, my sickle humor
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


LA MUERTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My word against theirs, my sickle humor
Last Line: A cash & carry star of exits and entrances
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA PALMA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my last love letter -- you know
Last Line: Disappearing before me yes, it was me without you
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA PERA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say baby, yeah you again, in that
Last Line: You don't dare me. Do you?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA PESTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: La peste arrived before we did
Last Line: To one another, the idea of love, voice, time
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA POETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Examine closely, comrade
Last Line: After fire, ignite the tips of your red %breasts, suckle this mirror I carry
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA PRENSA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In '68, all the flowers fell. In tlatelolco
Last Line: This shrunken room stained with paper & emptiness?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA PUERCA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lived in a condo underneath an apple tree
Last Line: Who entered me, who took me, who eats me now?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA ROSA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You called my name
Last Line: New silences & new loves. I use the word silences %for sky
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA SANTA NINA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go to her %from the mercado, your knees dipped
Last Line: Your glass case, your reflected face
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA SERPIENTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one's got me right. That's all I can tell you
Last Line: They forget how I laugh. I laugh with perfection
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA SILLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fashioned from wwii chest skin
Last Line: Your name in its flowery design, its downturned flourishes
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA SIRENA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stalked her, for centuries
Last Line: Your black tresses inside my eyes, infinite %dying, blossoming
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA TORTURA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't kid yourself. I am easy. See this vato
Last Line: With so much language about love
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA TRAMPA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lissen baby, so you got me cornered, so, my back's
Last Line: Give me black world, take me
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA TRISTEZA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't pity me %don't grind ablutions
Last Line: Slash into all the eyes
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA VACA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hamburger said to the bread
Last Line: And the freezing child %below the she-belly?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA VENGANZA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say baby %do me a favor
Last Line: Oh, the a tattoo is for absolute-cut
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA VICTIMA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't believe anything I've said. Everything
Last Line: How I lean to one side and disappear into the haze
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LA VIRGEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lift her above our shoe-shine kit
Last Line: The sickle moon. Listen to your blood
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LAS TIJERAS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Got this itch in my pants. Can't tell if it's
Last Line: Clip you, let me shave you down to my size
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS AMIGOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His mustard suits, his pizza head
Last Line: For your late-night accordion ear
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS BORRACHOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You -- murrieta! You got the winer?
Last Line: Say, murrieta, we're in deep, baby
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS FUMADORES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tibet, tangiers, hyde street riffs, come
Last Line: Through the love-swamp, suck & shake, baby
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS GUARACHES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are steppin' up
Last Line: More days than nights. More scars than sighs
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS MUSICOS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the glaciers undo their fondue
Last Line: Salty guillotines rated x, the g strings, busted
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS PIES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Step, break, slip %and speak at the foot
Last Line: Unraveling, at your fanciful door
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)


LOS SUPLICANTES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Empanizado, breaded one, frito
Last Line: Listen to every drop of the new fire
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game)