Torrents of words poured out, puns in English mixing with Spanish, Tzotzil, Yiddish. The PRI, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, became "the longest-ruling political dynasty in the known universe"; John's native country was "Gringolandia," or, more recently, "Obamaland." Even his casual emails were like no one else's: "the end is a little nigh," John wrote in September when he learned the liver cancer had returned.
But all this shouldn't make us forget that John was also a serious political thinker--however hard he tried not to sound like one.
from MR Zine: John Ross and Los de Abajo
then San Francisco Chronicle: John Ross, author, poet, journalist, dies
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