Tags: Poem.
I Am Joaquin (also known as Yo Soy Joaquin) by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales is a famous epic poem associated with the Chicano movement of the 1960s in the United States. In I am Joaquin Joaquin (the narrative voice of the poem) speaks of the struggles that the Chicano people have faced in trying to achieve economic justice and equal rights in the U.S as well as to find an identity of being part of a hybrid mestizo society.