Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and Chicano Poetry
Chicano Poetry politics of identity as irony." December 21, 2020 We might as well begin with “beyond.” Really I know that my roots come out of the Beat movement. My roots come out of there in the way that all of our roots are intertwined, there, not so much in New York but in San Francisco, where I was born, in the Mission District. I grew up in San Jose, California, in a place that was incredibly liberating in that—what? what’s poetry from San Jose? It defied definition; it wasn...
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