The premature death of Ricardo Sanchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political movement. A troubadour of Chicano Movement poetry, he established an anti-aesthetic that became the norm. Sanchez's autobiographical poetry forges a link between genres of the past and present and establishes him as the first great tragic figure of contemporary Chicano literature.In a body of work that spanned spatial, temporal, and cultural boundaries, Sanchez dealt with issues of power and of linguistic and cultural barriers between Anglo, Native...
The premature death of Ricardo Sanchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political mov...
