No one is better positioned than he to influence this literature. Natalie Diazdirector. Borderlands Imagination Center at Arizona State University. A Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry and a self-proclaimed “language activist,” Diaz is brilliant and powerful, and needs to read both. “When my brother was an Aztec” and “Postcolonial love poems.“
Finally, Wizards, Curandero and Presidente: Juan Felipe Herrera. He is a former American Poet Laureate and the son of a migrant farm worker. My homeboy from Barrio Logan, San Diego. The poem he chose “half the world is in the light“ A magical mystery tour that takes you not only along the border but also around the universe. Herrera is a hallucinogenic drug that causes hallucinations. His voice is the distillation of our entire journey.
What novels inspire me?
There are many authors of Borderlands. One of the best, most genuine people is Denise Chavez. Her environment is the often overlooked world of the Frontera family in Southern New Mexico and West Texas, and the epic story that flourishes there. She is the queen of a generation that has proliferated since the 1980s, with a strong, feminist voice that is unraguably joyful.her novel “Dear Pedro Infante“ Your Chavez collection will begin and you won’t want to stop.Another innovator is the poet and novelist Ana Castillo and her border classics “far away from god“ These two authors tell the story of women on the American side in both languages, in vivid colors and in a variety of tones.
I also highly recommend the work of Benjamin Arile Saenz. His Aristotle and Dante young adult novel is very popular, but I look at his poetry with helpless envy.Start with his stories “Everything starts at the Kentucky Club and ends at the Kentucky Club” who won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fictionand his collection of poems “Elegy in Blue”.
What audiobook would be a good companion for walking around?
The oldest and most venerable literary tradition along the border is oral tradition. I didn’t start reading books. Sitting at the feet of the old ladies, he told ghost stories and fancied family histories (and recounted indigestion gossip about other relatives). They were my first professors.
In my opinion, I’d rather listen to border music than audiobooks. Because it’s easy to absorb and you can dance to it. Every song is a novel or a collection of poems, because Borderlands don’t speak, they sing. Music leaps over border walls like wild pigeons. Her two of the world’s foremost musical portrait painters are Lyra Downes and The Nortek Collective. Downes’ The Border is an elegant, lively album of haunting portraits of depth and wit. And her album, Shake Away, is a wild journey through sounds and stories you’ll never find on a tour bus or beach vacation. (Recommended track: “minimum wageThe Nortec Collective duo have created a techno music hybrid that absorbs traditional instrumentation and themes and transforms them into upbeat dance music of joy and generosity for dance lovers and electronica fans alike. Few bands have spawned large-scale cultural and literary movements, but Nortek continues to thrive, opening doors for creativity in literature, theater, dance and visual arts locally and globally.
I also have to recommend Los Lobos from Los Angeles, Calexico from Tucson, Arizona, and El Gran Silencio and Jumbo, two fiercely playful bands from Monterrey, Mexico.
