Zócalo Public SquareSpeaking for the Children … and the AK-47 – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Speaking for the Children … and the AK-47 https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/03/28/speaking-for-the-children-and-the-ak-47/books/squaring-off/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/03/28/speaking-for-the-children-and-the-ak-47/books/squaring-off/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:01:58 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=46441 In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to California poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Senegal Taxi. Herrera weaves together a multitude of unexpected voices and genres—poetry, prose, art, dialogue—to give voice to the pain and hope of the children whose lives have been ravaged by years of violence and war in the Sudan.

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Herrera weaves together a multitude of unexpected voices and genres—poetry, prose, art, dialogue—to give voice to the pain and hope of the children whose lives have been ravaged by years of violence and war in the Sudan.

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