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  • Chapter 16 - Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric

  • Edited by José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, University of Houston, Anna M. Nogar, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
  • Book:
    A History of Mexican Poetry
    Published online:
    21 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 294-312

  • Summary

    This comprehensive review of Chicanx poetry considers the lyric poetry of Greater Mexico as an ongoing evolution of and conversation with varied poetic traditions at the crossroads of geopolitical, cultural, and expressive exchange. This chapter addresses this arc, beginning with oral forms such as the corrido, and examines the ascendency of poetry in the early borderlands press, which was anchored by colonial New Spanish lyric poetry. The focus then turns to the flourishinging of Chicano/a/x poetry in the 1960s through the 1980s via the establishment of Chicano/a/x publication outlets and independent printing presses as well as through Chicano/a/x-specific literary prizes. The chapter concludes by considering the form’s coevolution with Chicano/a/x identity and politics to the present day, including a return to oral forms such as slam poetry, and its evolving relationship with other Latino/a/x cultural productions.