Chicano
poet releases truths with touching glimpse of soul "Luis A. Lopez's touching and insightful
book, "Warrior-Poet of the Fifth Sun" is an artistic work.
Lopez offers the gift of 40 poems that capture the essence
of Chicano poetry with the common experience of the human
condition.
One manner of understanding the idea of 'warrior' is simply
not being afraid of who you are; it's an idea worth grasping,
as it enables one's search for understanding. This is the
strength of this book: The warrior poet must be honest and
fearless in his work, in his life."
El
Paso Times November 14, 2004 Carlos
F. Ortega
- lecturer in Chicano Studies at the University of Texas at
El Paso
"As a Chicano by culture, I have a tendency to look around
me in the literary world hoping a young latino/a jaguar appears,
their mind scathingly cool and hot cutting through the luke-warm
room temperature poets of our times. Bored by the paltry mediocrity
of much poetry from wedding cake Poet Laureate props to ghetto
smack-down hip-hop sessions, imagine how pleased I was when
I read Luis Lopez's poetry. It is real, crafted, exploratory
and useful in the literary sense, it combines to create unique
voice, its images are vital to the context of our age and
it has a strenuous if not desperate sense of trying to make
sense of the chaos, the violence, the racism, the lies....
I look forward to seeing the progressive development of this
wonderful poet..."
Winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award,
the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage
Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious
International Prize.
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