Every day we get more illegal

Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope. "Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written, part English, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed."'New York Times "Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be."'NPR "From Basho to Mandela,Every Day We Get More Illegaltakes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares, 'I had to learn ... to take care of myself ... the courage to listen to my self.' In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud, this book makes it clear exactly why Juan Felipe Herrera continues to be recognized and sought after for his work. You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are."'Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition "In Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Her