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Loterķa Cards and Fortune Poems : A Book of Lives
Lotera Cards and Fortune Poems A Book of Lives Author:Juan Felipe Herrera The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular lotería images. They were modern adaptations, made with painstaking detail (think of a turn-of-the-millenium, wired Posada) and showing a distinctive sense of humor and pathos. The poetry, commissioned esp... more »ecially for the drawings, also showed a fresh and modern take on the icons of Mexicanismo and Chicanismo."-Frontera MagazineTable of Contents?Introduction