Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

María Lionza

Monumento María Lionza, Caracas


Cabalga, de ancas anchas, en la danta.
Caza el chigüire y rastrea el jaguar.
Danza, ágil, ataviada con cocar,
y así al amante lo atrapa, y lo encanta.

Madre será, de una abundancia tanta
que esparce hijas por la selva a poblar,
las cascadas y plantas a animar.
De mama amplia, a la Amazonia amamanta.

Sus aguas inundan como su pelo.
Nadan en ellas las yaras hermanas,
más la anaconda, rayo, falo de aros.

María de la Onza no ostenta velo:
la milagrosa labra, sin sotanas
y en pieles planetarias, votos raros.

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