In the following foreword to Alurista's first collection of poems, Gómez-Quiñones introduces Alurista to the reader, speaks of the importance of poetry to Chicano culture, and of ...
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In the following review, Hancock enumerates some charcteristic strengths of Alurista's poetry.
Emerging from the Chicano movement is a distinctive literature which depicts the conditions of ...
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In the following essay, Bruce-Novoa offers a thematic reading of the first ten poems of Floricanto en Aztlán.
Quetzalcóatl-Nanauatzin is the sun-god of the priests [Tlamatinime], who ...
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In the following essay, Keller asserts that Alurista's use of pre-Columbian elements in his poetry is intended to invigorate and validate Chicano cultural identity.
This volume brings togeth...
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In the following essay, Candelaria explicates a number of Alurista's poems in order to demonstrate the nature of his cultural, spiritrual, and political concerns, and explore how his poetics ha...
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In the following essay, Grandjeat argues that Alurista's poetry is more strongly spiritual than political.
Alurista's work has been acknowledged both by critics and readers of Chicano...
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Critical Essay by Juan Gómez-Quiñones
