Luis Alberto Urrea - October 9, 1996

Date
Sponsors

UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea reads from Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (1993), The Fever of Being (1994), Wandering Time: Western Notebooks (1999), and also from The Best American Poetry (1996).

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Introduction
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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Opening Remarks and "I Tried to Write A Poem About This Once A Year for Thirteen Years"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Fever of Being. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1994.

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"And the Wind to Blow Us On"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Fever of Being. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1994.

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"The Last Soldier of Pancho Villa"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

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"Ghost Sickness, Part 10"
Description

Differs from published version, which also appears as "Ghost Sickness, Part 12" in Ghost Sickness (1997).

Citation

Lehman, David, ed. The Best American Poetry, 1996. New York: Scribner, 1996.

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"Santa Fe. December 13."
Description

From "Winter." Differs from published version.

Citation

Urrea, Luis Alberto. Wandering Time: Western Notebooks. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999.

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Question and Answer Session
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Questions are inaudible.

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