Lucha Corpi

Lucha Corpi is a Chicana poet and mystery writer. She was born on April 13, 1945, in Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico.[1] In 1975, she earned a B.A. degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] In 1979, she earned an M.A. in comparative literature from San Francisco State University.[1][3] Corpi's most important contribution to Chicano literature, a series of four poems called "The Marina Poems", appeared in the anthology The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation, which was published by W. W. Norton & Company, in 1976 (ISBN 9780393044218).[1][3][4]

She tends to write her short stories in English and her poems in Spanish.[5]

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  3. ^ a b Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale. 1993.
  4. ^ Contemporary Women Poets. Detroit: Gale. 1998.
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