Monday, March 30, 2009

Luci Tapahonso Discussion Questions

“In Praise of Texas”
In this poem, praise of Texas and the hope of seeing George Strait are both real and a metaphor. What might Tapahonso be talking about in this poem?


“Conversations at the Gila River Arts Center”
Where does Tapahonso’s first conversation with the medicine man take place? Why stress this setting?
Where does her last conversation take place? Who does she talk to and what does she talk about?
What does she mean by suggesting that “some memories and stories [are] too powerful for things as new as concrete and asphalt to destroy” (26)?


“Blue Horses Rush In”
What do the horses symbolize in this poem? What does the narrator connect them to?

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