WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.520 align:middle line:90% [NO AUDIO] 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.958 align:middle line:90% Another poem from that area. 00:00:04.958 --> 00:00:05.875 align:middle line:90% Poem called "Sonoita." 00:00:05.875 --> 00:00:09.190 align:middle line:90% [NO AUDIO] 00:00:09.190 --> 00:00:16.129 align:middle line:90% 00:00:16.129 --> 00:00:17.870 align:middle line:84% I like the Sonoita landscape and it 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:19.670 align:middle line:84% seemed to fit the poem that was in my mind 00:00:19.670 --> 00:00:22.370 align:middle line:84% since it was sort of a dreamlike poem. 00:00:22.370 --> 00:00:24.380 align:middle line:90% And also, the word Sonoita-- 00:00:24.380 --> 00:00:27.180 align:middle line:84% I mean, I tell you my titles are totally arbitrary. 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:29.840 align:middle line:84% So Sonoita sounded like sonnet to me. 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:32.600 align:middle line:84% Song, sonnet, Sonoita, something like that. 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.900 align:middle line:90% Anyway so I used it. 00:00:35.900 --> 00:00:39.050 align:middle line:84% An arab stallion dapple in his wild colthood, 00:00:39.050 --> 00:00:41.840 align:middle line:84% a schoolgirl holding to the silver mane, 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.560 align:middle line:84% canter from their stable and spray of trodden soil. 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.950 align:middle line:84% Effortlessly they sail across the shorn foothills, 00:00:48.950 --> 00:00:50.660 align:middle line:90% turning the earth's corner. 00:00:50.660 --> 00:00:54.440 align:middle line:84% Headed for an oasis in a land where all its horses bridles 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:56.300 align:middle line:90% hang upon the palms. 00:00:56.300 --> 00:00:59.390 align:middle line:84% Tired, her mother waits by adobe stalls. 00:00:59.390 --> 00:01:02.360 align:middle line:84% Shy of words to calm her apprehension, 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:04.670 align:middle line:84% she has known the gate of passion 00:01:04.670 --> 00:01:06.770 align:middle line:90% and fears the wild herds. 00:01:06.770 --> 00:01:09.830 align:middle line:84% Like an old hired hand, she waits in shadows 00:01:09.830 --> 00:01:12.950 align:middle line:84% for the child who riding and broken in the saddle, 00:01:12.950 --> 00:01:15.410 align:middle line:84% heeds not the love of men, but lives 00:01:15.410 --> 00:01:17.060 align:middle line:90% bejeweled where there are none. 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:19.772 align:middle line:90% [NO AUDIO] 00:01:19.772 --> 00:01:32.040 align:middle line:90% 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.650 align:middle line:84% That's a poem that I like to read a lot in the high schools 00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:37.830 align:middle line:84% and we sort of coordinate it with the kind of assignment, 00:01:37.830 --> 00:01:40.440 align:middle line:84% so Indian students, we found, have been usually 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:42.510 align:middle line:84% the best poets and are also the best painters. 00:01:42.510 --> 00:01:45.502 align:middle line:84% And I think there will be a day, it's not far from now, 00:01:45.502 --> 00:01:47.460 align:middle line:84% when we're going to see that Indian painting is 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:49.380 align:middle line:90% going to be the big vogue. 00:01:49.380 --> 00:01:51.090 align:middle line:84% These kids have a very distinctive style 00:01:51.090 --> 00:01:53.560 align:middle line:84% and it comes from a completely different perspective. 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.520 align:middle line:84% In other words, when you tell an American, just 00:01:56.520 --> 00:01:59.430 align:middle line:84% regular white kids, us, to draw a table, 00:01:59.430 --> 00:02:02.550 align:middle line:84% well, we draw the line and the legs. 00:02:02.550 --> 00:02:03.750 align:middle line:90% The top and the legs. 00:02:03.750 --> 00:02:07.200 align:middle line:84% Indians usually will draw it from the top looking down. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.229 align:middle line:84% And it's just a matter of-- almost everything 00:02:10.229 --> 00:02:15.460 align:middle line:84% has a slight perspective difference. 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:17.520 align:middle line:84% And so I find it very interesting 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.970 align:middle line:84% that very often these kids who write the poems also 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:22.050 align:middle line:90% do a lot of the painting. 00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:23.220 align:middle line:90% And I like to-- 00:02:23.220 --> 00:02:25.045 align:middle line:84% so I always say, illustrate your poems, 00:02:25.045 --> 00:02:27.420 align:middle line:84% because they come up with some really gorgeous paintings. 00:02:27.420 --> 00:02:31.440 align:middle line:84% And if I was an entrepreneur I guess I would buy them 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:32.610 align:middle line:90% or something, but I don't. 00:02:32.610 --> 00:02:34.830 align:middle line:84% I just, I just like the idea that they 00:02:34.830 --> 00:02:40.470 align:middle line:84% do it and we're encouraging the BIA at the moment to-- 00:02:40.470 --> 00:02:42.090 align:middle line:84% you know how schools are, you never 00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:45.000 align:middle line:84% think of-- like here, the Poetry Center, 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.280 align:middle line:84% this guy from the art department came in the other day 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.405 align:middle line:84% and he said, well, he didn't even know it was here. 00:02:49.405 --> 00:02:51.750 align:middle line:84% Well, we just never think of the arts in combined terms, 00:02:51.750 --> 00:02:54.870 align:middle line:84% but I'm trying to get the BIA to, 00:02:54.870 --> 00:02:56.490 align:middle line:84% whenever they do have writing classes, 00:02:56.490 --> 00:02:58.470 align:middle line:84% to also work art classes and around it. 00:02:58.470 --> 00:03:04.260 align:middle line:84% And there's another program funded by Title 1 00:03:04.260 --> 00:03:07.530 align:middle line:84% where a girl rides around with a van filled 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:10.620 align:middle line:84% with all sorts of art supplies, and baskets, weaving material, 00:03:10.620 --> 00:03:12.090 align:middle line:90% and paintings and stuff. 00:03:12.090 --> 00:03:17.233 align:middle line:84% And we run into each other very often at the different schools. 00:03:17.233 --> 00:03:18.900 align:middle line:84% So I'm going to be coordinating with her 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:21.930 align:middle line:90% so we'll see what comes out. 00:03:21.930 --> 00:03:24.180 align:middle line:84% The Institute of Indian Arts had a very beautiful book 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:25.980 align:middle line:84% where the kids wrote little poems, 00:03:25.980 --> 00:03:28.350 align:middle line:84% and little doesn't mean, not good. 00:03:28.350 --> 00:03:30.720 align:middle line:84% They're just-- they tend to write in shorter forms, 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:35.670 align:middle line:84% but really excellent imagery and then did some illustrations 00:03:35.670 --> 00:03:38.480 align:middle line:84% with it and it's just a gorgeous book.