Juan Luna is an artist currently incarcerated in Stateville Prison. He is working on getting a bachelor’s degree through the University Without Walls at Northeastern Illinois University. He is a strong believer in human rights and plans to use his art and degree to bring people together.

Her poems allude to historical figures such as the Filipino painter Juan Luna and the novelist and national hero Jose Rizal, as well as the eleven hundred indigenous Filipinos brought to serve as live exhibits in the 1904 Missouri World's Fair.

The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose ...

“In Juan Luna’s Revolver, Luisa Igloria establishes herself as a singular and revelatory voice in American poetry. Here, she explores the dichotomy of Filipino: interwoven yet hermetically singular, acquisitive yet inventive, docile yet amok. Her engrossing poems hide, behind their gorgeous scrims, a bristling wall of spears.”

2023年11月29日 · "The poems in Juan Luna's Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Luisa A. Igloria traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began after the encounter with European and American colonial power.

The image of the revolver fired by Juan Luna reverberates throughout the collection, raising to high relief how separation and exile have shaped concepts of identity, nationality, and possibility. Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria's poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically ...

2021年4月11日 · In the title poem, Igloria reveals how Luna shot and killed his wife and his mother-in-law in Paris on account of his wife’s suspected infidelity. Later on, in the same poem, Igloria mentions another individual with the name of Juan Luna who was convicted of killing seven people in a massacre at Brown’s Chicken restaurant in Palatine ...

2016年4月4日 · The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose ...

The image of the revolver fired by Juan Luna reverberates throughout the collection, raising to high relief how separation and exile have shaped concepts of identity, nationality, and possibility. Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria's poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically ...

Her poems allude to historical figures such as the Filipino painter Juan Luna and the novelist and national hero Jose Rizal, as well as the eleven hundred indigenous Filipinos brought to serve as live exhibits in the 1904 Missouri World's Fair.