“I believe in beautiful messes…I like to splatter a lot.”

—  Juan Felipe Herrera

On his creative process in “Juan Felipe Herrera On Poetry In Tough Times” https://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523466543/juan-felipe-herrera-on-poetry-in-tough-times in NPR (2017 Apr 12)

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American writer 1948

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