Reading and Book Signing with Luci Tapahonso at IAIA Museum Store
December 6, 2008 2:00 PM
Museum Events
 Lloyd Kiva New Gallery at the IAIA Museum, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (Click here for a map)
The IAIA Museum store hosts a special reading and book signing of A Radiant Curve, Luci Tapahonso's new book.
Tapahonso is originally from Shiprock, NM and is currently professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry including A Radiant Curve.
Professor Tapahonso received a “Lifetime Achievement” award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. She is recipient of a number of other awards including the 1998 Kansas Governor’s Art Award, and Distinguished Woman awards from the National Association of Women in Education and the Girl Scout Council of America. Her book, Blue Horses Rush In, was awarded the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association’s Award for Poetry. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. She was featured in Rhino Records’ CDs, In Their Own Voices: A Century of American Poetry and Poetry on Record: 98 American Poets Read Their Work and in the PBS films: The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo, The Desert is No Lady, Art of the Wild, Woven by the Grandmothers: An Exhibition of 19th Century Navajo Textiles, and American Passages: The Works of Leslie Marmon Silko, Luci Tapahonso and Simon J. Ortiz.
In A Radiant Curve, her sixth collection of stories and verse, Tapahonso finds sacredness in everyday life. Viewing a sunset in a desert sky, listening to her granddaughter recount how she spent her day, or visiting her mother after her father’s passing, she finds traces of her own memories interlaced with the voices of her Navajo ancestors. The collection includes an audio CD of the book and Tapahonso’s engaging words draw readers into a workaday world that, magically but never surprisingly, has room for the Diyin Dine’é (the Holy People).
This event is $5/person, and free for IAIA Museum members! Please call 505-983-8900 x 122 for more information.
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