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- W143120349 abstract "Alberto R?os is award winning author of both poetry and short fiction.1 His book of verse, Whispering to Fool the Wind, won the Walt Whitman Award in 1981 and his first book of short stories, Iguana Killer,(1984) won the Western States Book Award the same year of its publication.2 A commonality of both his verse and prose is that they generally on life on and around the borderlands. In much of his creative work, his poetic and narrative voices reveal a child's perspective. In some instances, the reader hears the voice of individual living out his/her own youth, and at other times, one listens to the remembrances of adult as they reflect back on their youthful past. Another constant in R?os work is that, in spite of this child-like perspective, it almost always deals with real and serious issues. In reference to R?os' poetry, Jos? David Saldivar identifies some of these ideas when he observes that many of his poems, focus on the liminal geographic of Chicano towns such as Nogales, often bordering on two worlds, two languages, two cultures and two literary traditions(66).3 critic's comments regarding the notions of spaces and border, both geographic and cultural, are clearly of primary importance in not only R?os' poetry but, it is safe to say, in the works of the majority of Chicano scholars and artists active today. Since both the concepts of spaces and border are integral to this study, let us pursue understanding of these issues a bit farther. In his book Movements in Chicano Poetry, (1995) Rafael P?rez-Torres, asserts that, The border' divides, categorizes, dispossesses. 'borderlands' by contrast form a and literal space where worlds blend and cross (35). Clearly, it is the divisive and at times hostile nature of the Mexico/United States that separates, categorizes and dispossesses the two nations and peoples. Accordingly, it is the border that acutely designates and emphasizes that everything and everyone belongs to either one side or the other. Clearly, this concept of border propagates the emergence of a seemingly endless series of oppositional binary constructions: Mexican/Anglo, Spanish/English, Mexico/United States, etc. On the other hand, the continuation of P?rez-Torres' thought regarding the borderlands, suggests quite a different idea. In contrast to his notion of border, the critic sees the borderlands as a space of blending and crossing, metaphorical and literal. He goes on to say that the borderlands are: an interstitial site" @default.
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- W143120349 title "Fireworks on the Borderlands: A Blending of Cultures in the Poetry of Alberto R?os" @default.
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