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Herrera produced "The Twin Tower Songs," a San Joaquin Valley performance memorial on the September 11, 2001, attacks and writes (poetry sequences) for the PBS television series American Family. His recent musical, The Upside Down Boy, was well received in New York City, produced by Making Books Sing, libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger.
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Sometimes, the words he chose depended on language-specific concepts, such as gendered words in Spanish, which Alarcón played with in his poetry. [23] Alarcón was "highly-regarded" for his children's poetry. [22] He started writing poetry for children in 1997 when he realized there were very few books for children written by Latino poets. [24]
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability.The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome.
His last book, Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, was published after his death, and is a collection of the poems he wrote in prison, some written in rudimentary pieces of toilet paper, others preserved in letters to his wife, is considered one of the finest pieces of Spanish poetry of the 20th century.
They were composed between October 1889 and April 1890, and published in 1891. The words are translations into German by Emanuel Geibel (1815–84) and Paul Heyse (1830–1914) of Spanish and Portuguese poems and folk songs, published in a collection of 1852 also called Spanisches Liederbuch. [1] [2] [3]
His anthologized poem How to Watch Your Brother Die was written during the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Lassell worked as managing editor of L.A. Style in the 1980s and of Interview in 1990, as a theater critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and L.A. Weekly , and as the articles director of Metropolitan Home magazine from 1991 to 2009.
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