This could be me signing your book if you order direct from the horse's hands. (Me: Born Year of the Horse in Chinese calendar. And, Ahau, Yellow Sun in the Tzolkin, the Mayan calendar -- which is the one I follow. Ha! Yellow Sun-Horse.)
* Note: Click on the pics to go to my flickr site. I have foto hay(na)ku poems there -- some from pics taken days after Wilma hit Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
Bryce has revamped my webpage on Wings, and added the review copy along with these pics he took of me at the Texas debut of DRIVE: The First Quartet. These were taken Oct. 17, 2005 at Trinity University yukkin' it up with new and old buds, by the look of the grin, this must be after the performance: "YEA! It's OVER!" You can go to the Wings website if you're looking for bio info in a hurry. Otherwise, search this site for more than anyone would possibly want to know.
~ Lorna Dee Cervantes
Drive: The First Quartet
DRIVE INCLUDES FIVE SEPARATE WORKS:
How Far's the War? • BIRD AVE
Play • Letters to David • Hard Drive
NOTE: Cover art by Irving Norman.
Interior paintings by Dylan Morgan.
Photos by Bryce Milligan.
TRADE EDITION PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2006
DRIVE • ISBN: 0-930324-54-4 • 308 pages • Hardback • $24.95
Converted ISBN: 978-0-930324-54-4
A SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION AVAILBLE IN APRIL 2006:
DRIVE • ISBN: 0-916727-14-9 • $250 • Limited to 100 numbered
and signed, specially bound, in a hand-made wooden box
Advance pre-paid orders are being taken now.
Reserve your copy before they are all gone.
"This is a landmark work." – MartÃn Espada
Drive "reestablishes Cervantes as a singular voice."
– Publishers Weekly
" This is what it means to be a poet." – Ana Castillo
"She taught us that poetry can change the world." – Sandra Cisneros
"Cervantes is a poetic force to be reckoned with." - Women in the Arts (publication of The National Museum of Women In the Arts)
About DRIVE:
This is a landmark work. Lorna Dee Cervantes is not only an important Chicana poet; she is an important American poet, and her voice comes to us again, after many years, at a time when we desperately need to hear that voice. In fact, there are many voices here: the voice of protest against the atrocities committed in the name of coffee and bananas, the voice of the suffocated poor in the barrio and Latin America, the voice of girls fighting to survive on the street, the voice of jazz from the 78s of the past, the voice of praise for ancestors and the next generation, all voices of the most profound energy, compassion, strength, wisdom. "Come and see the blood in the streets," Neruda wrote. Lorna Dee Cervantes knows the blood in the streets and the blood of the heart, the blood that spills and the blood that keeps us alive. Come and see.
~ MartÃn Espada
This is what it means to be a poet, I tell myself, reading the thick, rich poems of Lorna Dee Cervantes' new collection. A poet is a "one winged dove." She is a "copper kettle," a "tuna-tamed tiger" and the "thundering of a hummingbird's wings." These images and many more are among Cervantes' treasure trove of poetic labors. If you love poetry, you've come to the right place. Throughout these pages, be prepared to feast your heart.
– Ana Castillo
About Lorna Dee :
As young writers we grew up alongside Lorna Dee Cervantes. When no one else was listening, she published us, encouraged us, guided us. Her work was the light we turned towards directing us towards a poetry of lyricism and social activism. She taught us that poetry can change the world.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Lorna Dee Cervantes is a daredevil.We are transfixed as she juggles rage, cruelties, passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick of survival. No one is alone in this amazing act of love.
– Joy Harjo
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Where In The World Is Lorna? Lorna Dee's Calendar
You can access my calendar online from now on at ical.mac.com/lornadeecervantes and subscribe at webcal://ical.mac.com/lornadeecervantes/Readings.ics
Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 7:00pm - 9 pm
University of Houston, main campus - La Palabra (hosted by Tony Diaz)
Houston, TX
Thursday, October 26, 8:00 pm
Featured Reader - Southwest Writers and Artists Festival
October 25-26, Texas A & M Univ.
College Station, TX
Saturday, October 28, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Panel & Reading with Chicana/o & Latina/o writers
Book signings & appearances
October 27-29, Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Purdue University
location TBA
?, Indiana
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Luis Cervantes: A Retrospective 1923-2005 - Reception, 4 - 8 pm
Exhibition November 11 (Veteran's Day) - November 29, 2006
SomArtS Main Gallery
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA
TBA - December
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Panel on American Indian Poetry
Pittsburgh, PA
April - TBA
Panel on Poetry Makes What Happen?
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
Atlanta, GA
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Name: Lorna Doone
Birthday: Hiroshima Day
Birthplace: 19 & Valencia, Mission District, San Francisco
Current Location: far from home
Eye Color: brown-black
Hair Color: black
Height: 5'3"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: Purepacha/Chumash
The Shoes You Wore Today: black boots
Your Weakness: Meat (did I say love?)
Your Fears: any recreation that requires falling down (rock-climbing, surfing, sky-diving, skiing, mountain biking, skateboarding, etc.) (did I say love?); other than that I'm fearless.
Your Perfect Pizza: (I like it; It doesn't like me) (did I say love?) (otherwise: spinach, black olive, artichoke, mushroom & feta) (salami when no one's looking)
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: (did I say love?) Get organized.
Your Most Overused Phrase: "I love you." (did I say that?)
Thoughts First Waking Up: I want sex (did I say that?)
Your Best Physical Feature: My sexuality.
Your Bedtime: whenever the heck I want
Your Most Missed Memory: I'm not sure I understand this question; if it's a memory how can it be missed? I miss all that will never be memory.
Pepsi or Coke: Chale!
MacDonalds or Burger King: Chale!
Single or Group Dates: I like Jessica's answer, so I'll steal it: I tend to either date someone for many years or not at all so this question doesn't apply to me. (did I say love?)
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Chale! (It's the same corporation) Guayaki yerba mate tea or Pixie Yerba Mate drinks
Chocolate or Vanilla: depends upon who's wearing it
Cappuccino or Coffee: Chale!
Do you Smoke: Chale!
Do you Swear: I stopped for decades. Now, hanging with old friends it's all coming back to me. Like punctuation.
Do you Sing: Sure. Less so now that I don't ride my bike as much. And, less so now that I have my iPod. But I dance more. I've been known to sing at a reading -- I can't fathom that; must be some other gal.
Do you Shower Daily: no, I take daily power-baths
Have you Been in Love: (did I say love?)
Do you want to go to College: Sure, every day I get dressed to go profess at one.
Do you want to get Married: Nice work if you can get it -- if it's real (did I say love?)
Do you believe in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: no
Are you a Health Freak: sort of, but like everything I do, just casually
Do you get along with your Parents: "Did" Father, yes. Mother, no -- but then, she wasn't herself.
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes, until I started living on thunderstorm alley -- now I don't
Do you play an Instrument: Did, minimally and rudimentary: (by order of appearance) tuba, banjo, guitar, dulcimer, auto harp, flute
In the past month have you Smoked: Chale!
In the past month have you gone on a Date: not technically (Jessica's answer) (did I say love?)
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: heck yeah
In the past month have you been on Stage: yup
In the past month have you been Dumped: uh yup
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no, but was hella tempted to on the rooftop pool at midnight by myself
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Chale! (ethical through and through)
Ever been Drunk: once when I was seventeen, teachin' the white boys how to swig tequila -- and fluently bilingual
Ever been Beaten up: Heck no -- I BEAT 'EM BACK.
Ever Shoplifted: CHALE! (well...brief childhood spree with my best friend for Barbi clothes)
How do you want to Die: during an orgasm (did I say that?)
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: (did I say loved?)
What country would you most like to Visit: Mexico again and again; Guatemala, Brazil, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, The Isle of Mann, Chile, Peru, (the Heights of Macchu Picchu) (did I say love?) The country of my real content.
Number of Piercings: ears (one each) Jessica's answer (I don't like to mess with my symmetry)
Number of Tattoos: none (I don't like to mess with my symmetry)
* currently listening to Ricky Lee Jones, "It Must Be Love" (did I say love?)
P.S. This is what 200 pages of love poems, most of them unrequited, will do to you.
Extra Credit:
You Should Be A Poet
You craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways.
And you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery...
Or describing the most intense heartbreak ever.
You're already naturally a poet, even if you've never written a poem. What Type of Writer Should You Be?
Your Aura is Blue
Spiritual and calm, you tend to live a quiet but enriching life.
You are very giving of yourself. And it's hard for you to let go of relationships.
The purpose of your life: showing love to other people
Famous blues include: Angelina Jolie, the Dali Lama, Oprah
Careers for you to try: Psychic, Peace Corps Volunteer, Counselor
What Color Is Your Aura?
Your Inner Child Is Surprised
You see many things through the eyes of a child.
Meaning, you're rarely cynical or jaded.
You cherish all of the details in life.
Easily fascinated, you enjoy experiencing new things. How Is Your Inner Child?
Your Heart Is Pink
In relationships, you like to play innocent - even though you aren't.
Each time you fall in love, it's like falling for the first time.Your flirting style: CoyYour lucky first date: Picnic in the parkYour dream lover: Is both caring and dominantWhat you bring to relationships: Romance What Color Heart Do You Have?
Ok. Now I feel better.
