News at Eleven: [Juan Felipe] Herrera's vaulting confidence

and his concessions to the demands of an audience (where subtlety may be no asset) can raise poems above the page or sink them. "Señorita X: Song for the Yellow-Robed Girl From Juárez" sometimes soars: "This is the song of mumbling fathers with harmonicas conjuring the winds/This is the song of tiny lost brothers and sisters hiding under mercado glass."

from The New York Times: 'Punk Half Panther'

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