The Searchers: Collected Poetry

Tomàs Rivera

jan. 1990 · Arte Publico Press

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Tomàs RiveraÍs The Searchers: Collected Poetry, edited by Juliàn Olivares, contains the twenty-six poems the late author published and an equal number which the editor discovered among the authorÍs literary papers. In The Searchers, in taut but impassioned lyrics, Tomàs Rivera celebrates the common experience of humanity and renews his search for the encounter of the self, community, the past and the continuity of the dead through the living. Tomàs Rivera is the author of the now classic Chicano novel ƒ y no se lo tragÑ la tierra/ƒ and the earth did not devour him and the short story collection The Harvest.

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Tomàs Rivera (1935-1984) was born to a family of migrant farm workers in the South Texas town of Crystal City. In spite of moving constantly to work the crops, Rivera managed to graduate from high school. He went on to obtain a degree in English from Southwest Texas State University. He then earned a masterÍs degree in Spanish literature and a doctorate in Romance languages and literatures. He became a university administrator, and in 1979 he was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, a position he held for five years until his sudden death in 1984.