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Informationen zum Autor Juan Felipe Herrera is the US Poet Laureate and was inspired by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movement and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. His published works include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971–2007 ; Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream ; Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas ; Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de rayos ; Laughing Out Loud, I Fly , a Pura Belpré Honor Book; Américas Award winners CrashBoomLove and Cinnamon Girl ; Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas , which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; and The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza , which was adapted into a musical. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, and previously served as California Poet Laureate. He has taught at both California State University, Fresno, and University of California, Riverside, and held the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in Creative Writing. He lives in Fresno, California. Zusammenfassung I want to see what is on the other side of the dust When the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the Cinnamon Girl , makes her manda, her promise, to gather as much of it as she can. Maybe returning the dust to Ground Zero can comfort all the voices. Maybe it can help Uncle DJ open his eyes again. As tragedies from her past mix in the air of an unthinkable present, Yolanda searches for hope. Maybe it's buried somewhere in the silvery dust of Alphabet City.
