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driven, so much, by intentions, as I am stunned into being by
intent”<br>
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Poetry Reading with Lorna Dee Cervantes<br>
Tuesday, April 5th, <u>1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.<br>
Arts 335<br>
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One of the preeminent voices in Chicana literature and American
poetry,<br>
Lorna Dee Cervantes is a dynamic poet whose work draws tremendous
power<br>
from her struggles in the literary and political trenches. Her power is
channeled<br>
by a keen intellect and careful attention to craft, which allows her to
explore the<br>
boundaries between language and experience. Joy Harjo says of her
poetry,<br>
"Lorna Dee Cervantes is a daredevil... We are transfixed as she
juggles rage,<br>
cruelties, passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick
of survival.<br>
No one is alone in this amazing act of love."<br>
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Cervantes' first book, Emplumada (University of Pittsburgh, 1981), was
a<br>
recipient of the American Book Award. Her second collection, From the
Cables of<br>
Genocide:Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público, 1991) was awarded
the<br>
Patterson Poetry Prize, the poetry prize of the Institute of Latin
American<br>
Writers, and the Latino Literature Award. Her most recent work, Drive:
The First<br>
Quartet, was published in 2006.<br>
Sponsored by Chicano Student Programs, the Department of English, The
Center for Ideas and<br>
Society, the College for Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, the MFA
Program in Creative Writing and<br>
Writing for the Performing Arts, the Department of Theatre, and MALCS de
UCR.</b><br>
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For more information contact
<a href="mailto:llasa001@ucr.edu">llasa001@ucr.edu</a><br>
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