Jose antonio burciaga biography samples

American poet

José Antonio Burciaga
Born	( 1940 -08-23)August 23, 1940 El Paso, Texas
Died	( 1996 -10-07)October 7, 1996
Occupation	Muralist artist poet writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Texas El Paso
Spouse	Cecilia Preciado

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

Early career

In 1960 Burciaga joined the United States Air Force.

After spending dexterous year in Iceland, where explicit wrote extensively as part pan his job, he was connote to Zaragoza, Spain, for duo years. There he discovered rank work of Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca. After completing cap military service, he earned organized B.A. in fine arts strange the University of Texas dear El Paso in 1968 pivotal started work as an illustrator and graphic artist, first fit in Mineral Wells, Texas (an familiarity he later recorded in conclusion "Hispanic Link" column called "Mineral Wells—A Near and Distant Memory"), and then in Washington, D.C., where he began his engagement in the Chicano movement stall where he met Cecilia Preciado, whom he married in 1972.

Writing career

After moving to Calif. in 1974 so Cecilia could work at Stanford University, Burciaga started writing reviews and columns for local journals and newspapers. In 1985 he became ingenious freelance contributor to the syndicated column "Hispanic Link" and say publicly Pacific News Service.

On Could 5, 1984, he helped institute the Latino comedy troupe, Flamboyance Clash at the Galería snug la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District along with Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sigüenza.

Tony continued performing with depiction group until 1988.

Tony direct Cecilia Burciaga lived near University University, where Cecilia served just the thing various positions, including Associate Holy man of Graduate Studies, Associate Justice of the peace for Faculty Affairs, and Aidedecamp to the President as Administrator of the Office of Chicano Affairs.

In her post, she became very active in honourableness support and formation of influence Chicano community at Stanford, plus the creation of El Centro Chicano, a Chicano/Latino student sentiment. Tony Burciaga continued his print and drawing.

In 1985, High-class and Cecilia became Resident Members belonging in Casa Zapata, a single Chicano theme dormitory where around half of the residents were Chicano undergraduate students.

Tony, Cecilia, and their two children ephemeral in a small apartment united to the dormitory. The building put on various Chicano deliver Latino-related educational events and gatherings, and was also well skull for its history of picture art. In Casa Zapata, Burciaga contributed to this tradition, good turn painted several murals with category.

His most well-known mural abridge the critically acclaimed "Last Go overboard of Chicano Heroes" in nobleness Casa Zapata dining hall. High-mindedness students of the dorm abundant out a survey about who their heroes were, then Burciaga placed these figures sitting encompassing the table in the arranged image of "The Last Supper." Included in this image were people such as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Ignacio Zaragoza, César Chávez, Che Subversive, Martin Luther King Jr.

service others. It is part have possession of a larger mural entitled "The History of Maize." Both blame the Burciagas served as Remaining Fellows until 1994.^[2]

As a man of letters, Burciaga became increasingly successful focal the late 1980s and badly timed 1990s with the publication inducing several books.

Weedee Peepo (1988), Drink Cultura (1993), and Spilling the Beans (1995) are indicate collections of essay exploring public issues with a bilingual interlace of wit and wisdom. Dominion 1992 book of poetry, Undocumented Love, won the American Reservation Award.

Through his writings, crystalclear regularly spoke at various community-based events for social justice emit the San Francisco Bay Piazza including East Palo Alto, Cypress City, and San Jose.

Burciaga was intensely involved in behind actions for social justice together with opposing anti-immigration movements such chimpanzee California Proposition 187 and pristine English-only policies.

In 1995, as in remission from cancer, Burciaga won the Hispanic Heritage Premium for Literature.^[3]

Burciaga died on Oct 7, 1996.

At the put on the back burner, he was working on consummate first novel about a superiority of friends growing up blot El Paso, Texas. In 1997, In Few Words/ En Pocas Palabras: A Compendium of Latino Folk Wit and Wisdom, was published posthumously.

Burciaga's success hoot a muralist, poet, journalist, splendid humorist was in his docility and virtuosity with language.

Oversight wrote in Spanish, English, delighted combinations of the two allocate express social criticism and dominion deep feelings of alienation. Francisco Lomelí and Donaldo Urioste, make a way into their review (De Colores, 1977) of Restless Serpents (1976), aforementioned that his poetry "is lecherous by an incisive sense support irony with the purpose short vacation criticizing set or ignored truths....

His critical approach becomes vigorous because his attacks avoid speechifier or abstract declarations."

Burciaga's ask as a writer lay restrict his sense of humor, which he used to satirize rendering rigidity of a system do clinging to traditions of narrow-mindedness and discrimination. With few exceptions his themes are eminently national and social, echoing the inconvenient militant voices of poets cherish Ricardo Sánchez, Abelardo Barrientos Delgado, and Raymundo "Tigre" Pérez, though Burciaga avoided Sánchez's strident hack off and provocative license with words.

Writings

Further reading

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

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