City Lights Releases NOTES ON THE ASSEMBLAGE By Juan Felipe Herrera

Notes on the Assemblage is being published by City Lights on the day of Herrera's inauguration as Poet Laureate in September. Get a copy now!

Notes on the Assemblage brims with the exuberant vision and hard-won wisdom of a poet whose life and creative arc have spanned chasms of culture in an endless crossing, dreaming and back again.

Juan Felipe Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His numerous poetry collections include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007, Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems(2008), and Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (1999). In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry, Herrera has written short stories, young adult novels, and children's literature.

Also available from City Lights are two previous poetry collections from Juan Felipe Herrera: 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border and Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives.

Juan Felipe Herrera is on tour throughout his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate at locations all over the country.

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