Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Reading Date: Wednesday, March 27, 1991
Welcome and Introduction -4295
by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Opening Remarks and "Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway"-4296
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Emplumada. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
"For Edward Long"-4297
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Emplumada. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
"From the Bus to E. L. at Atascadero State Hospital"-4298
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Drive: The First Quartet. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006.
"Crow"-4299
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Emplumada. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
"Raisins"-4300
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"The Poet Is Served Her Papers"-4301
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"Colorado Blvd."-4302
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"Plenos Poderes"-4303
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"Buckshot"-4304
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"Shooting the Wren"-4305
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
"Astro-no-mía"-4306
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Drive: The First Quartet. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006.
"Bird Ave"-4307
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Drive: The First Quartet. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Lorna Dee Cervantes reads primarily from Emplumada (1981) and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (1991); she also reads several poems that would go on to be collected in Drive: The First Quartet (2006).

- family
- feminism
- political poetry
- birds
- song
- native american descent
- pablo neruda
- identity
- spanish
- cultural heritage
- native american
- sex
- class consciousness
- violence
- mother
- science
- lyric poetry
- chicana
- political
- sexuality
- power politics
- heritage
- power
- tradition
- lyrical poetry
- femininity
- grandmothers
- love poems
- chicano poetry
- popular culture
- lyrical
- class
- poverty
- gangs
- traditions
- feminist
- woman
- hunting
- hunter
- bird
- acknowledgement
- womanhood
- mothers
- teenagers
- lyric poems
- existence
- non-existence
- Greek mythology
- divorce
- origin
- lyricism
- chumash
- gentrification
- spanish language
- san jose
- feminist poetry
- cultural difference
- knowledge
- Mexican descent
- invisibility
- escape
- anti-love poems
- wren
- greek myths
- myths
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