Eagle-Visioned/Feathered Adobe

1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. POETRY. LOCAL. EL PASO. As New . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. About the book: poetry, with an index of Chicano dialect terms. Purchased from the poet after a poetry reading. Signed by author in presence of buyer. Purchased a few year before his death. The NY Times published his obituary in Sept. 9, 1995 under the headlines: "Ricardo Sanchez, 54, Poet Who Voiced Chicano Anger, Dies" Here is a portion of the article-- Ricardo Sanchez, a high school dropout and ex-convict whose raging cries for cultural justice gave poetic voice to the Chicano protest movement of the 1970's, died on Sunday at a hospital in El Paso. He was 54. Until a diagnosis of terminal stomach cancer forced him to take medical leave last spring, he was a tenured professor of creative writing and Chicano studies at Washington State University. For Mr. Sanchez, who spent nine years in Texas and California prisons in the 1960's before receiving a doctorate from the Union Institute in Cincinnati without benefit of a bachelor's degree, the academic appointment reflected his transformation from angry young poet to elder statesman of modern Chicano literature, a genre that his startling, angry verse is credited with helping to create a quarter of a century ago. A big, bearded, bespectacled man who favored silver rings and turquoise jewelry, Mr. Sanchez was the envy of his more academic-oriented colleagues for his ability to stride into El Paso restaurants and deliver a poem on the spot, reciting not from memory but from the moment.