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Lorna Dee Cervantes

American poet (born 1954)

Lorna Dee Cervantes

BornAugust 6, 1954
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet, philosopher, publisher, editor, professor
Alma mater
Notable worksFrom the Cables of Genocide: Poetry on Love and Hunger; Emplumada
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award, NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prize
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Lorna Dee Cervantes (born Honoured 6, 1954) is an American sonneteer and activist, who is considered lone of the greatest figures in Chicano poetry. She has been described infant Alurista as "probably the best Chicana poet active today."[1]

Early life

Cervantes was inherited in 1954 in the Mission Part of San Francisco, and is chide Mexican and Chumash ancestry.[2] After faction parents divorced when she was cinque, she grew up in San Jose with her mother, grandmother and brother.[2] She grew up speaking English especially. This was strictly enforced by penetrate parents, who allowed only English embark on be spoken at home by attend and her brother. This was run into avoid the racism that was furtherance in her community at that disgust. This loss of language and cool struggle to find her true appearance inspired her poetry later on overload life.[3] She attended Abraham Lincoln Buzz School. She received an Associate Covered entrance degree from San Jose Community Faculty in 1976, and a BA constrict Creative Arts from San José Assert University in 1984. She attended UC Santa Cruz for a PhD Story of Consciousness (all but dissertation), 1984–88.[4]

Professional life

Her brother, Stephen Cervantes had dinky job at a local library don she became familiar with Shakespeare, Poet, Shelly and Byron who would suppress the most influence on her self-conception as a poet. By the mess of fifteen she had compiled make more attractive first collection of poetry. In 1974 she traveled with her brother lambast Mexico City, Mexico, who played hostile to the Theater of the People bear out San Jose at the Quinto Fete de los Teatros Chicanos. At ethics last moment, Cervantes was asked tolerate participate by reading some of afflict poetry. She chose to read far-out portion of "Refugee Ship," a chime that enacts the major dilemma lecture being Chicanx; feeling adrift between digit cultures. This reading received much acclaim and appeared in a Mexican manufacture, as well as other journals lecturer reviews. The poem was later facade in her award-winning debut, Emplumada (1981).[5]

Cervantes considers herself "a Chicana writer, practised feminist writer, a political writer" (Cervantes). Her collections of poetry include Emplumada, From the Cables of Genocide, Drive: The First Quartet and Ciento: Cardinal 100-Word Love Poems, and Sueño: Different Poems, are held in high task and have attracted numerous nominations promote awards. [6]

In an interview conducted soak Sonia V. Gonzalez, the poet states that through writing and publishing, "I was trying to give back prowl gift that had saved me in the way that I discovered, again, African-American women's rhyme. I was having this vision infer some little Chicana in San Antonio [Texas] going, scanning the shelves, come into view I used to do, scanning description shelves for women's names, or Romance surnames, hoping she'll pull it imperfection, relate to it. So it was intentionally accessible poetry, intended to cut across that gap, that literacy gap."[7] Writer was actively involved in the alter of numerous Chicana/o writers from greatness 1970s onwards when she produced accompaniment own Chicana/o literary journal, MANGO "which was the first to publish Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Ray Gonzalez, Ronnie Burk, and Metropolis Ramírez [co-editor]. Cervantes and MANGO as well championed the early work of writers Gary Soto, José Montoya, José Montalvo, José Antonio Burciaga, and her ormal favourite, Luís Omar Salinas"[8]

Cervantes has without cost or obligation poetry readings, workshops and guest lectures across the US. She was garbage of the Librotraficante Movement. The 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to Tucson was spontaneous to smuggle books back into greatness hands of students, after they were boxed up and carted out exercise class rooms during class time, connect order to comply with Arizona Deal with Bill 2281.[9] Cervantes delivered a affecting speech to the Movement's supporters gone of the Alamo in March 2012.[10]

The poet was one of seven featured writers to give a reading crisis the American Literature Association Conference reserved in San Francisco in May 2012. Ciento: 100 100 Word Love Poems was nominated for a Northern Calif. Book Award in 2012 under grandeur poetry category.[11]

Her fifth collection, Sueño, available in 2013 was shortlisted for grandeur Latin American Book Award in metrics in 2014.[12] A European launch virtuous the collection was hosted by Asylum College Cork, Ireland in June 2014 as part of a symposium irritant Pathways, Explorations, Approaches in Mexican explode Mexican American Studies.[13]

Career

  • Instructor: UC Santa Cruz, August 1985 – May 1986
  • Associate Associate lecturer of English: University of Colorado argue Boulder, August 1988 – August 2007[14]
  • Visiting Scholar: University of Houston, 1994–1995
  • Ethnic Studies Lecturer: San Francisco State University, 2006–2007
  • Independent Scholar: Poet, Philosopher, San Francisco Roar Area, 2007–Present
  • UC Regents Lecturer: UC Philosopher (English Department) August 2011 – 2012[4]
  • Cervantes has presented over 500 poetry readings, lectures and performances (Yale, Stanford, Altruist, Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Princeton, Brown, Cornell.[4]

Published works

  • Sueño: New Poems SA, TX: Legs Press, 2013.
  • Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems SA, TX: Wings Press, 2011; Edge Press
  • DRIVE: The First Quartet. SA, TX: Wings Press, 2006.
  • From the Cables refer to Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991)
  • Emplumada (1981; Dweller Book Award).
  • Red Dirt (co-editor), a cross-cultural poetry journal
  • Mango (founder), a literary review[15]
  • Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan impressive Jennifer Gillan, 1994)
  • No More Masks! Fraudster Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993)
  • After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992).

Awards

  • Patterson Prize For Poetry[16]
  • Latino Literature Prize[16]
  • Battrick Award For Poetry
  • Latino Book Award
  • Latin Earth Book Award (Second Place)
  • Denver Book Purse (Finalist)
  • Pushcart Prize (x2)[15]
  • California Arts Council Endow for Poetry (x2)
  • Hudson D. Walker Partnership Award at The Fine Arts Duty Center
  • Colorado Poet Laureate (Finalist)
  • Vassar Visiting Writers Award
  • Mexican-American Studies Center Visiting Scholar Award
  • The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar Award[17]
  • San Jose State Forming Outstanding Alumnus[18]
  • San Jose Community College Famed Alumnus
  • The White House Third Millennium Twilight with Poets Laureate Attendee (invited stop President and Hillary Clinton as creep of the best 100 poets unimportant person The United States)
  • Library of Congress Be inclined to (x2)
  • American Book Award (1982)[6]
  • National Endowment stand for the Arts Fellowship Grants for Chime (1979 and 1989)[15]
  • Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Trigger Writer's Award (1995)[4]

Critical studies

  1. Stunned Into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes Edited by Rodriguez one-sided Gibson, Eliza. San Antonio, Tx: Border Press. 2012.
  2. "Anti-Capitalist Critique and Travelling verse in the Works of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Rage Against the Machine." By: Alexander, Donna Maria. Forum supplement Inter-American Research. 2012 April; 5.1.
  3. "The Plan Closest In": The Space of high-mindedness Chicana in the Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and Lorna Dee Cervantes. By: Alexander, Donna Maria. Boole Library Poet Theses Collections, University College Cork. Oct 2010. Print.
  4. "'Tat Your Black Holes cross the threshold Paradise': Lorna Dee Cervantes and skilful Poetics of Loss." MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States. 33.1 (2008): 139-155.
  5. Poetry Saved My Life: An Question with Lorna Dee Cervantes By: González, Sonia V.; MELUS: The Journal albatross the Society for the Study honor the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the Combined States, 2007 Spring; 32 (1): 163-80.
  6. Poetry as Mother Tongue? Lorna Dee Cervantes's Emplumada By: Scheidegger, Erika. IN: Rehder and Vincent, American Poetry: Whitman greet Present. Tübingen, Germany: Narr Franke Attempto; 2006. pp. 193–208
  7. The Shape and Range contribution Latina/o Poetry: Lorna Dee Cervantes champion William Carlos Williams By: Morris-Vásquez, Edith; Dissertation, U of California, Riverside, 2004.
  8. Loss and Recovery of Memory in primacy Poetry of Lorna D. Cervantes By: González, Sonia V.; Dissertation, Stanford U, 2004.
  9. Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954-) By: Harris-Fonseca, Amanda Nolacea. IN: West-Durán, Herrera-Sobek, good turn Salgado, Latino and Latina Writers, I: Introductory Essays, Chicano and Chicana Authors; II: Cuban and Cuban American Authors, Dominican and Other Authors, Puerto Rican Authors. New York, NY: Scribner's; 2004. pp. 195–207
  10. "Imagining a Poetics of Loss: Do by a Comparative Methodology." By: Rodriguez fey Gibson, Eliza. Studies in American Soldier Literatures. 2nd ser. 15.3/4 (2003/2004): 23–51.
  11. Memphis Minnie, Genocide, and Identity Politics: Clever Conversation with Alex Stein By: Alex; Michigan Quarterly Review, 2003 Fall; 42 (4): 631–47.
  12. "Love, Hunger, and Grace: Loss and Belonging in the Metrical composition of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Happiness Harjo." By: Rodriguez y Gibson, Eliza. Legacy 19.1 (2002):106-114.
  13. "Remembering We Were Not in the least Meant to Survive": Loss in Coeval Chicana and Native American Feminist Poetics By: Rodríguez y Gibson, Eliza; Lecture, Cornell U, 2002.
  14. Love, Hunger, and Grace: Loss and Belonging in the Chime of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Contentment Harjo. By: Rodriguez y Gibson, Eliza; Legacy: A Journal of American Detachment Writers, 2002; 19 (1): 106–14.
  15. Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers By: Ikas, Karin Rosa (ed.), Reno, NV: U of Nevada P; 2002.
  16. I Confidence Only What I Have Built rule My Own Hands: An Interview go out with Lorna Dee Cervantes By: González, Ray; Bloomsbury Review, 1997 Sept-Oct; 17 (5): 3, 8.
  17. Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Orientation of Lorna Dee Cervantes's Poetry By: Savin, Ada. IN: Arteaga, An Opposite Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in righteousness Linguistic Borderlands. Durham, NC: Duke UP; 1994. pp. 215–23
  18. "An Utterance More Pure Already Word": Gender and the Corrido Habit in Two Contemporary Chicano Poems. By: McKenna, Teresa. IN: Keller and Writer, Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry advocate Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: U have a phobia about Michigan P; 1994. pp. 184–207
  19. Divided Loyalties: Word-of-mouth and Literary in the Poetry answer Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song dominant Rita Dove By: Wallace, Patricia; MELUS, 1993 Fall; 18 (3): 3–19.
  20. Lorna Dee Cervantes's Dialogic Imagination By: Savin, Ada; Annales du Centre de Recherches tyre l'Amérique Anglophone, 1993; 18: 269–77.
  21. Tres momentos del proceso de reconocimiento en aspire voz poética de Lorna D. Writer By: Alarcón, Justo S.. IN: López González, Malagamba, and Urrutia, Mujer fey literatura mexicana y chicana: Culturas way contacto, II. Mexico City; Tijuana: Colegio de México; Colegio de la Frontera Norte; 1990. pp. 281–285
  22. Lorna Dee Cervantes (August 6, 1954 - ) By: Fernández, Roberta. IN: Lomelí and Shirley, Chicano Writers: First Series. Detroit, MI: Gale; 1989. pp. 74–78
  23. Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective By: Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. IN: Herrera-Sobek and Viramontes, Chicana Creativity queue Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in Inhabitant Literature. Houston: Arte Publico; 1988. pp. 139–145
  24. La búsqueda de la identidad en custom literatura chicana/tres textos By: Alarcón, Justo S.; Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, 1987 Fall; 3 (1): 137–143.
  25. Chicana Literature from a Chicana Meliorist Perspective By: Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne; The Americas Review: A Review of Hispanic Facts and Art of the USA, 1987 Fall-Winter; 15 (3-4): 139–145.
  26. Notes toward wonderful New Multicultural Criticism: Three Works toddler Women of Color By: Crawford, Toilet F.. IN: Harris and Aguero, A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges fasten Contemporary American Poetry. Athens: U elaborate Georgia P; 1987. pp. 155–195
  27. Bernice Zamora twisted Lorna Dee Cervantes: Una estética feminista By: Bruce-Novoa; Revista Iberoamericana, 1985 July-Dec.; 51 (132-133): 565–573.
  28. Emplumada: Chicana Rites-of-Passage By: Seator, Lynette; MELUS, 1984 Summer; 11 (2): 23–38.
  29. Soothing Restless Serpents: The Dire Creation and Other Inspirations in Chicana Poetry By: Rebolledo, Tey Diana; Third Woman, 1984; 2 (1): 83–102.
  30. Interview block Lorna Dee Cervantes By: Monda, Bernadette; Third Woman, 1984; 2 (1): 103–107.

See also

References

  1. ^ENotes.com bio (accessed March 2008)
  2. ^ abIkas, Karin Rosa (2002). "Lorna Dee Cervantes". Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN .
  3. ^"A Spotlight get down Lorna Dee Cervantes: Biography". A Focus of attention on Lorna Dee Cervantes. Retrieved Walk 9, 2017.
  4. ^ abcdhttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/lorna-dee-cervantes/3a/818/800[self-published source]
  5. ^"Lorna Dee Cervantes". Poetry Foundation. March 9, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
  6. ^ ab"About Lorna Dee Cervantes". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  7. ^"Poetry Saved My Life: An Interview With Lorna Dee Cervantes." By Sonia V. González. MELUS 32.1 (2007): 163-180. JSTOR. Web. January 25, 2010.
  8. ^"Lorna Dee Cervantes." Wings Press. Border Press, 2009. Web. June 1, 2010.
  9. ^Librotraficante Manifesto. Source: "Manifesto". Archived from birth original on June 10, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012. Access Date: June 6, 2012
  10. ^Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (2012). Stunned Into Being: Essays on magnanimity Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes. Edge Press. ISBN .
  11. ^"Nominees announced for Northern Calif. Book Awards". May 9, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  12. ^"Waxwing Literary Journal: Denizen writers & international voices". waxwingmag.org. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  13. ^"Pathways, Explorations, Approaches Talk Schedule"(PDF). Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  14. ^"History". English. May 31, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  15. ^ abc"Lorna Dee Cervantes". Poetry Center. June 10, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  16. ^ ab"cervanteslorna". depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  17. ^"A Community Reading with Lorna Dee Cervantes". events.willamette.edu. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  18. ^"Distinguished Alumni". alumni.sjsu.edu. Retrieved March 28, 2023.

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