187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border

By Juan Felipe Herrera

Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Mexican Americans, Collections, Spanish text, American poetry, Hispanic Americans, Poetry, Experimental poetry

Description: A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what it’s like to live outlaw and brown in the United States.