Forthcoming from Juan Felipe Herrera—Handful of Gravel: Ukraine Notebook of Voices (2022-2025)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Juan Felipe Herrera, esteemed Chicano poet, writer, teacher, and artist, will publish his newest collection of work Handful of Gravel: Ukraine Notebook of Voices (2022-2025) with FlowerSong Press, expected to be released by the end of this year, 2025.
Handful of Gravel: Ukraine Notebook of Voices (2022-2025) by Juan Felipe Herrera
Herrera writes a poetic notebook of witness to more than 80 scenes of the Russian Occupation of Ukraine as if he were there, following the bicyclists being shot down on the streets, a mother and her two children mortared and fallen, mayors being dragged to an inferno, and elderly women tossing make-shift Molotovs at the T-72 Battle tanks. We enter the tiny rooms of citizens and notice the disruption caused by mercenaries. And we listen to the songs of Nadia outside, emanating hope and strength. Members of Parliament, we notice— their values, their daring. We continue to walk in the snow to the kind hands of Poland.
This is a unique set of poems by Herrera, offering pages of truth and a child’s gravel at our door.
