Gary Soto (born Febuary 1952) is an American author and poet. He has received many awards for his writing, which is centered on the Mexican-American or Chicano experience. Soto was born and raised in Fresno, California, to working-class Mexican-American parents. He had an older brother named Bobby, and a younger sister named Debra. Soto lived in Fresno where he worked as a factory laborer. His inspirations include Thomas Berger, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, … Wikipedia
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... Project Poems by Gary Soto Saturday At The Canal A BC DE FG HI JK LM NO PR ST VW Y[ALL] G.K. Chesterton Gabriela Mistral Galway Kinnell Gary Soto ... www.bryantmcgill.com/World_Poetry/~G/Gary_Soto/
Copyright by Dan Schneider, 1/2/04 Gary Soto does not know what poetry is. He thinks it is putting one word after another in a bland left-margined column down a sheet of blank paper. www.cosmoetica.com/TOP79-DES76.htm
All Things Considered , May 30, 2000 Mexican American poet and novelist Gary Soto recently started teaching at a California university known more for it agricultural program than literature courses. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1074837
