Angels & Devils: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea - October 14, 2021

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UA Poetry Center, UA College of Humanities

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Health Sciences Innovation Building
Angels & Devils: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea reads poems from The Tijuana Book of the Dead (2015) focused on life in the US-Mexico borderlands. He opens with one poem forthcoming in Piedra (2023) and concludes with a chapter from The House of Broken Angels (2019), retold from memory. This reading was presented as part of the 2021 Tucson Humanities Festival.

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Welcome and Introduction
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by Diana Marie Delgado

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"Gloria Mundi"
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Forthcoming in Piedra (FlowerSong Press, 2023?)

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"You Who Seek Grace from a Distracted God"
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Differs from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2015.

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"Codex Luna"
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Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2015.

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"Help Me"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2015.

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"Darling Phyl"
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Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2015.

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"Parrot"
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Differs from published version; Urrea shares this chapter from memory.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. The House of Broken Angels. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

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Luis Alberto Urrea
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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