Victor Hernández Cruz

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name = Victor Hernández Cruz


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birthdate = 1949
birthplace = Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
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period = 1960s - present
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movement = Nuyorican
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awards = International Griffin Poetry Prize; Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships


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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 1960s.

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. [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/681 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]

See also

*List of Puerto Rican writers
*List of famous Puerto Ricans
*Puerto Rican literature

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*worldcat id|lccn-n50-18707