Luis omar salinas biography channel
Luis Omar Salinas is one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America, and a poet of both national and international repute, as evidenced by his work.!
It features Dixie Salazar and Luis Omar Salinas, recorded in October inside the Bonner Auditorium at the Fresno Art Museum.
Luis Omar Salinas
American poet
Luis Omar Salinas (1937–2008) was a leading Chicano poet[1] who published a number of well-received collections of poetry, including the Crazy Gypsy, which has been described as "a classic of contemporary and Chicano poetry",[2]I Go Dreaming Serenades, and Afternoon of The Unreal.
He was awarded the Stanley Kunitz award by Columbia Magazine for one of his poems, and a General Electric Foundation Award. Salinas is regarded as "one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America,"[3] with many of his poems being "canonized in U.S.
Hispanic literature."[4]
Life
Salinas was born on June 24, 1937, in Robstown, Texas. His father, Rosendo Valdez Salinas, was a second generation Mexicano-Tejano.[5] Salinas was raised under poor circumstances in Robstown until, as a teenager, he moved with his family to California.
After graduating from Bakersfield High School, he served in the United S