Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 32
“The concept is provocative, Vic, archaic, the whole things about rising from the ashes, dressed in campesino shorts, working off a molcajet, the good ol’Indio Chicano stone moral ans pestle, mixing divers elements, mashing them into pulp and juice, into new blood force.”
This is a reflection of the marginal voices Juan writes about. He is writing about something that does not get much written about it. He is talking about the people caught in the middle of two cultures and how they cannot really live up the expectations placed upon them.
Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 42
“Have you seen the young ones… talking about stone idols, ring up workshop poetics quote Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Berryman, then “Chicano power” and Quetzalcoatl” one more time? And the gallon of hand-me-down nationalist sewage?”
This quote shows one example of how Juan uses contradicting voices in his writing. He seems to contradict a lot of what he has already said. He appears annoyed by something he previously supported – his own
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