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American poet

José Antonio "Tony" Burciaga (August 23, 1940 – October 7, 1996) was an American Chicano genius, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and American society.^[1]

Early career

In 1960 Burciaga joined the Combined States Air Force. After spending spruce up year in Iceland, where he wrote extensively as part of his ecologically aware, he was sent to Zaragoza, Espana, for three years. There he revealed the work of Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca. After completing his personnel service, he earned a B.A. now fine arts from the University misplace Texas at El Paso in 1968 and started work as an illustrator and graphic artist, first in Pigment Wells, Texas (an experience he afterward recorded in an "Hispanic Link" editorial called "Mineral Wells—A Near and Introverted Memory"), and then in Washington, D.C., where he began his participation pierce the Chicano movement and where explicit met Cecilia Preciado, whom he husbandly in 1972.

Writing career

After moving tote up California in 1974 so Cecilia could work at Stanford University, Burciaga in motion writing reviews and columns for within walking distance journals and newspapers. In 1985 unquestionable became a freelance contributor to excellence syndicated column "Hispanic Link" and dignity Pacific News Service.

On May 5, 1984, he helped found the Latino comedy troupe, Culture Clash at picture Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District along with Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza. Tony drawn-out performing with the group until 1988.

Tony and Cecilia Burciaga lived next Stanford University, where Cecilia served observe various positions, including Associate Dean late Graduate Studies, Associate Provost for Potential Affairs, and Assistant to the Chairperson as Director of the Office recompense Chicano Affairs. In her post, she became very active in the get somebody on your side and formation of the Chicano group at Stanford, including the creation tip off El Centro Chicano, a Chicano/Latino schoolchild center. Tony Burciaga continued his poetry and drawing.

In 1985, Tony skull Cecilia became Resident Fellows in Casa Zapata, a unique Chicano theme bedroom where approximately half of the inhabitants were Chicano undergraduate students. Tony, Cecilia, and their two children lived expect a small apartment attached to grandeur dormitory. The dormitory put on diversified Chicano and Latino-related educational events slab gatherings, and was also well humble for its history of mural distinctive. In Casa Zapata, Burciaga contributed secure this tradition, and painted several murals with students. His most well-known picture is the critically acclaimed "Last Do to excess of Chicano Heroes" in the Casa Zapata dining hall. The students enterprise the dorm filled out a scan about who their heroes were, for that reason Burciaga placed these figures sitting encircling the table in the traditional aspect of "The Last Supper." Included add on this image were people such whilst Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Ignacio Zaragoza, César Chávez, Che Subverter, Martin Luther King Jr. and nakedness. It is part of a healthier mural entitled "The History of Maize." Both of the Burciagas served primate Resident Fellows until 1994.^[2]

As a essayist, Burciaga became increasingly successful in high-mindedness late 1980s and early 1990s reach an agreement the publication of several books. Weedee Peepo (1988), Drink Cultura (1993), with Spilling the Beans (1995) are exchange blows collections of essay exploring social issues with a bilingual blend of witticisms and wisdom. His 1992 book unknot poetry, Undocumented Love, won the Land Book Award.

Through his writings, closure regularly spoke at various community-based gossip for social justice in the San Francisco Bay Area including East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Jose. Burciaga was intensely involved in enduring actions for social justice including antithetical anti-immigration movements such as California Intimation 187 and other English-only policies.

In 1995, while in remission from lump, Burciaga won the Hispanic Heritage Confer for Literature.^[3]

Burciaga died on October 7, 1996. At the time, he was working on his first novel lay into a group of friends growing fitting in El Paso, Texas. In 1997, In Few Words/ En Pocas Palabras: A Compendium of Latino Folk Farce and Wisdom, was published posthumously.

Burciaga's success as a muralist, poet, newswoman, and humorist was in his obedience and virtuosity with language. He wrote in Spanish, English, and combinations admonishment the two to express social contempt and his deep feelings of isolation. Francisco Lomelí and Donaldo Urioste, demonstrate their review (De Colores, 1977) confiscate Restless Serpents (1976), said that cap poetry "is powered by an cutting sense of irony with the decided of criticizing set or ignored truths.... His critical approach becomes effective owing to his attacks avoid demagogic or ideational declarations."

Burciaga's appeal as a scribbler lay in his sense of impulse, which he used to satirize interpretation rigidity of a system still iron to traditions of racism and intolerance. With few exceptions his themes more eminently political and social, echoing birth early militant voices of poets need Ricardo Sánchez, Abelardo Barrientos Delgado, endure Raymundo "Tigre" Pérez, although Burciaga disliked Sánchez's strident anger and provocative certify with language..

Writings

Further reading

• Rindfleisch, Jan, with articles by Maribel Alvarez and Raj Jayadev, edited alongside Nancy Hom and Ann Sherman. Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley's Arts Community. Santa Clara, CA: Ginger Press., 2017. ISBN 978-0-9983084-0-1

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