Search -
Calling the Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas: El Canto De Las Palomas
Calling the Doves/El Canto De Las Palomas El Canto De Las Palomas Author:Juan Felipe Herrera Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mot... more »her singing songs and reciting poetry, and his father telling stories and calling the doves. For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer.« less