Exploring queer themes and Chicano life, he became a bard of the U.S.-Mexico border

Ever since he was a boy, picking onions and working on roofs to help support his family, Benjamin Alire Sáenz had the uncanny feeling that he was living in two worlds, not one. Mr. Sáenz spent nearly his entire life on la frontera, or the borderlands. Raised on a farm outside Las Cruces, New Mexico...

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