Here is a event that I thought many of you may be interested in
attending. It even has a U of I connection.
Thank you for your interest in promoting our writing project
about the orangutans in Malaysia. Here are the web links I was
telling you about. They go together:
Bárbara Belloc and Teresa Arijón of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will
read from
their new collection of poetry entitled "Orangutans" on
Wednesday, October
18th, 2000, at 7 p.m. in Wild Bill's Coffeeshop, 321 North Hall,
The
University of Iowa campus.
Inspired by their 1996 visit to the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation
Centre
on the island of Borneo, Malaysia, "Orangutans" features
twenty-nine
poems written in Spanish with English translations by Hillary
Gardner.
Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Sepilok to promote
its
efforts to care for orphaned orangutans and return them to the wild.
Copies
of the book may be purchased for $10 at Wild Bill's or by
contacting
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The poems in "Orangutans" are meditations on the amazing
world of Malaysian
flora and fauna where orangutans, humankind's closest great ape
relative,
make their home. In the poem "Noreen II," dedicated to the
orangutan by
that name, Arijón writes:
To leave the page blank
so the orangutan
can make
her joyous print in passing.
Arijón was a 1995 participant in the International Writing Program
at The
University of Iowa. She and Belloc worked on the translations via
e-mail