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Innovative Voices Series speaker
Revolutionary poet alurista will be at UTPA on October 11 as the 2010
speaker in UTPA Library's Innovative Voices Series. He will be
guest of honor at a Merienda/Platica at the Library Faculty Lounge from
4:00 -5:30 p.m. Then he will give a formal address that evening
at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Theater. Students, faculty, staff
as well as the general public will have a chance to meet alurista and
purchase his latest book, Tunaluna. The UTPA Bookstore will be
selling the books as soon as they arrive and at these events.
alurista (real name Alberto Urista) is one of the seminal and most
influential voices in the history of Chicano Literature. A
pioneering poet of the Chicano Movement in the late 60s and 70s, he
broke down barriers in the publishing world with his use of bilingual
and multilingual writings in Spanish, English, Nahuatl and Maya. A
scholar, activist, editor, organizer and philosopher, he holds a Ph.D
in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of
California in San Diego and is the author of ten books including
Floricanto en Aztlan (1971), Timespace
Huracan (1976), Spik in Glyph? (1981)
and Z Eros (1995). His book, Et Tu Raza?, won the
Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award in Poetry in 1996.
Author of "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan," he is a key
figure in the reclaiming of the MeXicano cultural identity, history and
heritage through his integration of American Indian language, symbols
and spirituality in his writings. (Source: Juan
Tejeda, publisher/editor of Aztlan Libre Press, publisher of
Tunaluna, alurista's tenth book of poetry and alurista's
first publication in ten years).
In the introduction to the book Tunaluna Tejeda writes:
"alurista is a Xicano poet for the ages and a chronicler of la Nueva
Raza Cozmica. With Tunaluna he trumpets the return
of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered-serpent of Aztec and Mayan prophecy, and
helps to lead us out of war and into the dawn of a new consciousness
and sun, el Sexto Sol, nahuicoatl, cuatro serpiente, sun of
justice."
For more information on the "alurista Tunaluna Texas Book
Tour," go to Aztlan Libre Press or call 210-531-9505.
For more information about alurista's visit to UTPA, contact Virginia
Haynie Gause, Media and Marketing Librarian at vgause@utpa.edu or call
956-665-2303.
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