Victor Hernández Cruz
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| Victor Hernández Cruz | |
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| Born | 1949 Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico |
| Writing period | 1960s - present |
| Literary movement | Nuyorican |
| Notable award(s) | International Griffin Poetry Prize; Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships |
Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet, who was born in 1949 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, moved to New York in 1954, began writing at fifteen, and published his first collections of poetry in the late 1960's.
Praised by no less than Allen Ginsberg, Hernández Cruz is distinguished member of the famed Nuyorican school of poets. Hernández Cruz tweaks syntactic conventions of English and Spanish to communicate his own voice.
The author of numerous collections of poetry, a recipient of the International Griffin Poetry Prize, Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Hernández Cruz is currently Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.[1][2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Victor Hernández Cruz
- ^ Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Victor Hernandez Cruz." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/cruz.html
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Victor Hernández Cruz in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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