Lorna Dee Cervantes

Donna Alexander (University College Cork)

Ed. by Cara Levey, University College Cork, Nuala Finnegan, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.7: Chicano/Latino Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University)

Dates

Born 6 Aug 1954

Places

Born in United States
Active in Mexico; United States

Cultural Identities

Chicano/a American

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a Chicana, Native American (Chumash), feminist, activist poet based in North America. Active as a poet and publisher since the early 1970s, Cervantes was born in San Francisco on the 6^th of August 1954 and raised in San Jose by her mother and grandmother alongside her brother, Stephen Cervantes. Their home was located in a working class barrio called “Horseshoe” on Bird Avenue, a street later commemorated as the title of a poem and a subsection of her third collection of poetry, Drive: The First Quartet. The freeways that snaked across, over and above their home are the focal point of a series of poems in her first collection of poems in Emplumada (1981) These are referred t…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

3155 words

Citation: Alexander, Donna. "Lorna Dee Cervantes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 July 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13455, accessed 21 November 2024.]

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here