Ofelia Zepeda
Ofelia Zepeda
Zepeda, Ofelia
Reading Date: Wednesday, September 25, 1996
Full Reading-13149
Description:
Introduction by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
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Reading Date: Wednesday, September 25, 1996
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Ofelia Zepeda reads from her poetry collections When It Rains, Papago and Pima Poetry = Mat hekid o ju, 'O'odham Na-cegitodag (1982), Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), and Jewed 'I-hoi, Earth Movements (1997). She reads the poems first in O'odham, and then in English.
- nature
- family
- bilingual
- o'odham
- song
- music
- desert
- rain
- native american
- women
- narrative poetry
- narrative
- religion
- gardens
- tohono o'odham
- plants
- animals
- butterflies
- travel
- men
- earth
- the body
- ua faculty
- anaphora
- dirt
- stars
- coyotes
- lizards
- journeys
- hair
- bilingualism
- MacArthur Fellowship
- outdooors
- realatives
- bats
- scorpions
- gila monster
- hummingbirds
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