"Those of us who had the privilege of spending time with him understood the man he had become -- humbled by his troubled youth, scarred by a 15-year ordeal with the American correctional system and reborn after a spiritual connection to the indigenous peoples of the Americas -- he was our venerable elder, wise padrino and beloved teacher."
"Salinas leaves us an important legacy. He was a citizen poet who led by example, and who did not succumb to the disappointing times we live in -- he confronted them, he overcame them, and he removed their many disguises to disclose for his readers, his listeners and his pupils, the difficult truths to be reckoned with.
Safe passage, querido maestro."
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