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Bryce Milligan remembers Chicana poet Angela de Hoyos

December 30, 2009

tags: Angela de Hoyos, Bryce Milligan

About four-and-a-half feet tall, Angela de Hoyos was, as Rudolfo Anaya put it, “one of our giants.” She was a walking contradiction in many ways. Older than even the oldest of the activists who created the Chicano movement in the 1960s—and older by more than a decade than writers like Anaya and Tomás Rivera—Angela always seemed part of a younger generation. Such was her passion…

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