Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis
Reading Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
- Introduction
- "Cirabel"
- "Buenos días a los seres / Morning to the Beings"
- "A una mariposa monarca / To a Monarch Butterfly"
- "Un conquistador anónimo recuerda... / An Anonymous Conquistador Recalls..."
- "Vientos de piedra / Winds of Stone"
- "Un día un hombre olvida / One Day a Man Forgets"
- "Las palabras no dicen / Words Cannot Tell"
- "Moctezuma y los tamemes / Moctezuma and His Bearers"
- "Límites, jaulas, y paredes / Borders, Cages and Walls"
- "Un poema de amor / A Love Poem"
- "Sobre ángeles, IX / About Angels, IX"
- "Autoretrato a los seis años / Self-Portrait at Six Years of Age"
- "Autoretrato a los trece años / Self-Portrait at Thirteen Years of Age"
- "Autoretrato a los cincuenta y cuatro años / Self-Portrait at Fifty-Four Years of Age"
- "Pesos y medidas del ojo / Weights and Measures for the Eye"
- "The Eye of the Whale"
- "El ojo de la ballena"
Introduction-4954
by Malcolm Compitello
"Cirabel"-4955
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Buenos días a los seres / Morning to the Beings"-4956
English translation by Eliot Weinberger.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"A una mariposa monarca / To a Monarch Butterfly"-4957
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Un conquistador anónimo recuerda... / An Anonymous Conquistador Recalls..."-4958
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Vientos de piedra / Winds of Stone"-4959
English translation by Betty Ferber.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Un día un hombre olvida / One Day a Man Forgets"-4960
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Las palabras no dicen / Words Cannot Tell"-4961
English translation by George McWhirter and Betty Ferber.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Moctezuma y los tamemes / Moctezuma and His Bearers"-4962
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Límites, jaulas, y paredes / Borders, Cages and Walls"-4963
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Un poema de amor / A Love Poem"-4964
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Sobre ángeles, IX / About Angels, IX"-4965
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Autoretrato a los seis años / Self-Portrait at Six Years of Age"-4966
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Autoretrato a los trece años / Self-Portrait at Thirteen Years of Age"-4967
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Autoretrato a los cincuenta y cuatro años / Self-Portrait at Fifty-Four Years of Age"-4968
English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"Pesos y medidas del ojo / Weights and Measures for the Eye"-4969
Section 2 of the long poem "Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes to See Otherwise." English translation by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"The Eye of the Whale"-4970
English translation of "El ojo de la ballena," by George McWhirter.
Annotation:
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
"El ojo de la ballena"-4971
Aridjis, Homero. Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes To See Otherwise. Ed. Betty Ferber & George McWhirter. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Mexican poet Homero Aridjis reads work reflecting his environmental activism and engagement with Mexican history, drawn from his 2001 bilingual publication Ojos de otro mirar / Eyes to See Otherwise: Selected Poems. The English translations of Aridjis's poems (by Eliot Weinberger, George McWhirter, and Betty Ferber) are read aloud by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
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