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         Cervantes Lorna Dee:     more books (15)
  1. Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series) by Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1981-12-31
  2. Drive; the first quartet. by Lorna Dee Cervantes, 2006
  3. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger by Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1991-05
  4. Biography - Cervantes, Lorna Dee (1954-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team, 2006-01-01
  5. Lorna Dee Cervantes's "Freeway 280": A Study Guide from Gale's "Poetry for Students" (Volume 30, Chapter 4)
  6. Mango / Volume II - Fall-Winter 1979/80 by Lorna Dee; Ramirez, Orlando; Rocha, Adrian and Saldivar, Jose (Eds.) Cervantes, 1979
  7. Poetry as survival of and resistance to genocide in Lorna Dee Cervantes's Drive: The Last Quartet.(Book review): An article from: Journal of International Women's Studies by Edith Vasquez, 2009-05-01
  8. Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers
  9. Red Dirt (Premier Issue)
  10. Mango - Vol. 1 Nos. 3 & 4 (one volume) by Cervantes, Lorna Dee (Editor), 1977
  11. "Tat your black holes into paradise": Lorna Dee Cervantes and a poetics of loss.(Critical essay): An article from: MELUS by Eliza Gibson Rodriguez, 2008-03-22
  12. En los manos: The poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes by Shimberlee King, 1998
  13. Chicanas y Chicanos En Dialogo by Francisco and Dee Cervantes, Lorna Alarcon, 1989
  14. Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/o Literature (Chicana Matters) by Sheila Marie Contreras, 2008-07-01

1. Poems, Interviews And Writings Of Lorna Dee Cervantes Links Page
This site works best if you get your priorities straight and give it the full screen Poems, interviews and writings of Lorna Dee cervantes lorna dee Cervantes Lorna Dee Cervantes has been awarded the prestigous Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund Writer's Award; two fellowships
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This site works best if you get your priorities straight and give it the full screen Poems, interviews and writings of
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Chicana Liberationist, Poet, Political Activist, Feminist, Educator Cultural Theorist, and Bluesologist , Generally Cool Individual
This site provides links to writings by Lorna Dee Cervantes at other places on the Internet. In addition, it provides some poems, prose, and translations submitted directly to the site by Lorna Dee Cervantes and a few links to other internet sites that Lorna Dee Cervantes has asked us to post. Lorna Dee Cervantes has been awarded the prestigous Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund Writer's Award; two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; a Pushcart Prize; the Latino Literature Prize for From the Cables of Genocide ; the Paterson Poetry Prize for From the Cables of Genocide ; and the American Book Award (from the Before Columbus Foundation) for Emplumada . She was named Outstanding Chicana Scholar by the National Association of Chicano Scholars, and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger was nominated for a National Book Award in 1992. She has published extensively in literary magazines and anthologies, including

2. Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Shop here for From the Cables of Genocide Poems on Love and Hunger and find more books by Lorna Dee Cervantes. For a limited time, get free shipping on orders over $25!
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cervante.html
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Contributing Editor: Juan Bruce-Novoa
Classroom Issues and Strategies
Students may object to the strident tone of "Poem for the Young White Man." Even Chicanos can get turned off by it. The feminism has the same effect on the men. Why is she so hostile toward males, they ask. Some now say that she is passé, radicalism being a thing of the sixties. I prepare the students with information on feminist issues, especially on the single-parent families, wife abuse, and child abuse. I also prepare them by talking about racial and ethnic strife as a form of warfare, seen as genocide by minority groups. I use Bernice Zamora's poetry as an introduction. Her alienation from the male rituals in "Penitents" produces the all-female family in "Beneath . . . ." The sense of living in one's own land, but under other's rules (Zamora's "On Living in Aztlán"), explains the bitterness of "Poem for the Young White Man." And both of the poets eventually find a solution in their relation to nature through animal imagery; yet just like Zamora in "Pico Blanco," Cervantes maintains an uneasy relationship with the machoworld with which women still contend.
Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues

3. Voices From The Gaps: Lorna Dee Cervantes
LORNA DEE CERVANTES b.1954. PROJECT INFO. Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954in California. She grew up in San Jose, speaking English exclusively.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/CERVANTESlorna.html
PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates LORNA DEE CERVANTES
b.1954 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) And it's true, I gather love
as others gather breath for tears
and I love the golden light that weighs
upon the petals of narcissus. I love
your cobalt skies, the lightness of air
you carry in your fists. You hold your head
as a daffodil regales in the sun. Let me be
summer for you , past the profusion of
weeds I once was when my brown soul
huddled in her winter grave of girlish earth "Daffodils" Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954 in California. She grew up in San Jose, speaking English exclusively. This was strictly enforced by her parents, who allowed only English to be spoken at home by her and her brother. This was to avoid the racism and genocide, which was occurring in her community at that time. Lorna Dee Cervantes is currently a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She considers herself "a Chicana writer, a feminist writer, a political writer" (Cervantes). Although her literary works are held in high esteem, she often lacks self-confidence concerning her writing. The two collections of poetry

4. English Faculty: Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes Associate Professor of English Office 1301 Grandview A Telephone 303492-4620 E-mail lorna.cervantes@colorado.edu.
http://www.colorado.edu/English/facpages/cervante.html
    Lorna Dee Cervantes
    Associate Professor of English
    Office: 1301 Grandview #A
    Telephone: 303-492-4620
    E-mail: lorna.cervantes@colorado.edu Research and teaching interests Creative writing (poetry); poetics; cultural criticism; aesthetics Education B.A., San Jose State University, 1984 Publications Books From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger . Arte Publico Press, 1991 Emplumada . University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981 Poems anthologized in (partial listing since 1990) Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Non-Fiction . Prentice Hall, 2000 Creating Community in a Changing World . McGraw-Hill, 1999 The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II. Heath, 1998 The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2. Norton, 1998 Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance . Doubleday, 1998 The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature. Univ. of Washington Press, 1998 The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women , second edition. Norton, 1996

5. Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Poems Some Poems; Freeway 280 (text audio); California Plum ; Poet's Progress ; Summer Ends Too Soon (text
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hartleyg/authors/lornadee.html
Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt , a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties The Academy of American Poets poems "Bird Ave" "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races " "Freeway 280" Some Poems ... "Summer Ends Too Soon" (text; video "To We Who Were Saved by the Stars" "Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington" "Frank Sonata By Candlelight" & "Love of My Flesh, Living Death" ... 10 Seven-Minute Poems sites on Cervantes

6. Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes. Silvana Phillips. Teacher Silvana Phillips. LessonLorna Dee Cervantes. Standards NCTE 1,3,6,8,9. Objective
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Lorna Dee Cervantes
Silvana Phillips Teacher: Silvana Phillips Lesson: Lorna Dee Cervantes Standards: NCTE 1,3,6,8,9 Objective: Students learn about culture through poetry Materials: Computers or library for research Copy of the poem "Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington" per student Procedure: Students read the poem on their own circling the words they are unfamiliar with. Have students split into pairs and look for the definitions of the words they circled, encourage the students to find out more t han just the dictionary description, or where the city is located. Ask students to describe how the images contribute to the poem. Bring the students together to share discoveries – list words and meanings on the board. Evaluation: Were the students a ble to complete the task in the allotted time? Did they go beyond the task and find additional information – the connotative definition? Were the conjectures on the images importance to the poem reasonable, intellectual answers?

7. Chicana Poets
Chicana Poetry Lorna Dee cervantes lorna dee Cervantes is a wellknown Chicanapoet. Emplumada was Lorna Dee Cervantes’ first published book of poetry.
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Chicana Poets, and their Poetry
Chicana/Aztec Herstory
According to Billings, early worship of the god Quezacoat established the first social order of the Aztecs in the pre-colombian era. In other words, the practice of worshipping this god by the Aztecs is how historians were able to recognize a social order. One of such may have been previously established, without recognition, and then slowly died out.
The Aztec people were the dominant society of their area by the 14th Century. Their lifestyles revolved around religion and the worship of Aztec dieties. This structure provided equality in sharing between men and women. Each individual worshiped in the same ways and practiced a similar religion, regardless of gender. “Women served as priestesses in the community as well as being honored for their position as givers of life,” states Billings. It is told that a woman who dies while giving birth was revered. These women were compared to men who died in battle. In today’s world, a woman’s role as bearer of child is hardly regarded this highly. It’s almost as if women now days are simply expected to perform this fascinating task. The Aztecs were certainly ahead of their time in their ideals.
Along with the conquest of Mexico in 1519 by European colonizers, the Aztec community was drastically altered. Spaniards brought with them diseases that significantly reduced the indigenous population. Land was violently pulled out from under the Aztecs, and conversion to Catholicism was enforced. This conquest changed the lives of all Aztecs, yet women felt a stronger loss. Now, with no social status, Aztec women served as slaves and whores to the Spaniards. This conquest enforced the use of subordination of women from one culture to another. It is my opinion that if more communities were left to develop on their own during these times, the stance of women in today’s world would be significantly different.

8. Rosario
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Chang-Rodriguez y Filer. . Boston: Heinle and Heinle Publishers, 1996. Objetivos del Curso: Requisitos Ensayos: Calificaciones/Notas: Examen (2) Mini-ensayos semanales (10) Trabajo Corto (Midterm 5-7 pgs) Trabajo Final (Final 7-10 pgs) Total Valor de la notas: A /98-95 AB/95-89 B/88 BC /85 C/78 D/68 CD/75 F/ 0-59 ****Given the scope and the goals of the course, class participation and attendance is of utmost importance, continued absences will affect your final grade. There is no extra credit assignments, you are expected to do class work to the best of your ability and you are expected to be a critical thinker, filling pages with Spanish or quotes is not considered analysis**** Programa de Estudio Iris Zavala: Lyric Poetry and the Constitution of the Self (fotocopia) Iris Zavala: The Struggle for Signs (fotocopia) Viernes 8 de Febrero Cathy L. Jrade: Modernismo: Knowledge as Power (fotocopia)

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11. The SAC LitWeb Lorna Dee Cervantes Page
SAC LitWeb. The lorna dee cervantes Page. (b. 1954). Major Works Emplumada(1981). From the Cables of Genocide Poems of Love and Hunger (1991).
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(b. 1954) Major Works
Emplumada
From the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger
About Lorna Dee Cervantes
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An Interview with Lorna Dee Cervantes

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12. Lorna Dee Cervantes - The Academy Of American Poets
An Academy of American Poets poetry exhibit, includes a brief biography, online text of an essay, and an audio recording of the author reading one of her poems.
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/ldcerfst.htm
poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991) and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt , a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992). In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. This bio was last updated on May 9, 2000. photo courtesy of Arte Público Press Shop for Lorna Dee Cervantes books at your local bookstore, through Booksense.com . (This link will open in a new browser window.) Learn more about why poets.org

13. Links To Poems And Interviews  by  Lorna Dee Cervantes
Links to Poems and interviews by. lorna dee cervantes. lorna's lornadee cervantes is the 2001 Winner of this Poetry Prize. Click
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Links to Poems and interviews by Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorna's Poem " Starfish" was named the Poem of the Day on April 6 at the CriticalPoet's Poetry Form "To We Who Were Saved by the Stars" by Lorna Dee Cervantes originally published in From the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger was Published in the March 2001 issue of Pacific Rim Voices on and offline. Galway Kinnell's Word Hoard : The winner, Lorna Dee Cervantes :Lorna Dee Cervantes is the 2001 Winner of this Poetry Prize. Click on the Link to read her Winning Program "Imagine." Read the untitled poem that Lorna's friend and colleague, Native American Poet and Fiction Writer Sherman Alexie wrote that came in second place in this contest here. The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits - Lorna Dee Cervantes includes a Realaudio recording of Lorna Reading "Freeway 280"
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
Summer Ends Too Soon appears at Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers Site based on the PBS series Click on the picture too hear and see Lorna read "Summer Ends Too Soon" and hear and see a mini interview with Lorna.

14. Skagit River Poetry Festival
Biennial poetry festival in La Conner Washington. The May 2000 festival featured Coleman Barks, lorna dee cervantes, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin, David Lee, Thomas Lux, Heather Mc Hugh, and Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Enter For more information, email us: info@SkagitRiverPoetry.org Joel Brock
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15. Lorna Dee Cervantes - The Academy Of American Poets
lorna dee cervantes The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs,selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits.
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poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991) and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt , a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992). In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. This bio was last updated on May 9, 2000. photo courtesy of Arte Público Press Shop for Lorna Dee Cervantes books at your local bookstore, through Booksense.com . (This link will open in a new browser window.) Learn more about why poets.org

16. Lorna Dee Cervantes - The Academy Of American Poets
lorna dee cervantes Freeway 280. Find a Poem lorna dee cervantes Supportthis site Send this link to a friend. Add to a Notebook
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17. Voices From The Gaps: Lorne Dee Cervantes
Page from the Voices from the Gaps Women Writers of Color. Contains a biography, selected bibliography, Category Arts Literature Authors C cervantes, lorna dee......Women Writers of Color. lorna dee cervantes. (b. 1954). Biography Criticism.lorna dee cervantes. lorna dee cervantes was born in 1954 in California.
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18. Fooling With Words With Bill Moyers: Lorna Dee Cervantes
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19. Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
lorna dee cervantes (b. 1954). Bibliography. The best article is my Bernice Zamoraand lorna dee cervantes, Revista lberoamericana 51, 13233 (July-Dec.
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Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Contributing Editor: Juan Bruce-Novoa
Classroom Issues and Strategies
Students may object to the strident tone of "Poem for the Young White Man." Even Chicanos can get turned off by it. The feminism has the same effect on the men. Why is she so hostile toward males, they ask. Some now say that she is passé, radicalism being a thing of the sixties. I prepare the students with information on feminist issues, especially on the single-parent families, wife abuse, and child abuse. I also prepare them by talking about racial and ethnic strife as a form of warfare, seen as genocide by minority groups. I use Bernice Zamora's poetry as an introduction. Her alienation from the male rituals in "Penitents" produces the all-female family in "Beneath . . . ." The sense of living in one's own land, but under other's rules (Zamora's "On Living in Aztlán"), explains the bitterness of "Poem for the Young White Man." And both of the poets eventually find a solution in their relation to nature through animal imagery; yet just like Zamora in "Pico Blanco," Cervantes maintains an uneasy relationship with the machoworld with which women still contend.
Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues

20. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Lorna Dee Cervantes - Author Page
lorna dee cervantes (b. 1954) This northern California native typifies the youngChicano writers who began appearing in the mid1970s, ten years after the
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Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Access Author Profile Pages by: Table of Contents Authors by Name Authors by Year Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fourth Edition
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Lorna Dee Cervantes
(b.
Mango —like many of her generation, she now combines university life with writing. She presently teaches in the Creative Writing Program of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Yet, ethnic unity, necessary to combat anti-Chicano prejudice, demands sexual harmony, so the author synthesizes from the older generations the wisdom of female oral tradition: a balance of strength and tenderness, of openness and caution, of sincerity and reserve. Castaneda’s lesson—struggle with the enemy to turn it into your assistant—is applied to men and Nature. She learns to live with them, although never completely at ease. Survival depends on constant vigilance against betrayal, because despite the façade of peace, society and Nature are essentially a battle. Her manner of self-defense is to develop a harmonious identity through personal symbols in Nature—birds—related to a chosen cultural emphasis—the Native American element in her Mexican American past. Then she blends them into the image of her art in the metaphor of the pen through an interlingual play on words— pluma in Spanish means pen and feather, so to be

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