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Juan
Felípe Herrera
was
initiated into Word by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movimiento
and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz and blues performance
streams. At times he worked as a graphic artist for political
and arts periodicals such as La Verdad, Metamorfosis and La Gente,
writing and publishing poetry all the while. In 1970, his project
to redefine a Latino poetics and dramatic political form led him to
the indigenous cultures of Mexico, where he filmed rituals and recorded
the songs and daily life of the Huichol, Totonaca and Lacandón
Maya communities. These experiments and journeys later served
as the foundation for the various poetry collectives and open-genre
teatros that he founded, such as Teatro Tolteca, Troka, Poetasumanos
and Teatro Zapata.
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