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Widely recognized as the chief poet of the Chicano movement, Alurista (the pen name of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia) was born on August 8, 1947, in Mexico City. He lived in the border town of Tijuana until his teens, when he immigrated to San Diego, California. He became a leading voice in 1968 by promoting the southwestern United States as the mythic homeland of the Aztecs, known as Aztlán. Alurista made pivotal contributions to Chicano poetics: He revolutionized bilingual or Spanglish expression as a legitimate form of literature; he recovered an indigenous sensibility and mythology, mainly Nahuatl from the Aztecs, and gave them a new place in Chicano poetry; he promoted the term Chicano as a new ethnic identity for peoples of Mexican descent in the United States; and he produced highly experimental poetry and a novel in a new kind of American literary voice.

Alurista has distinguished himself as a political activist and cultural warrior, a spokesman for e Biography of isaac!