Flatirons (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorna Dee Cervantes
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Meditation/ode
- Genres: Poetry, Ode, Meditation
The Poem
Lorna Dee Cervantes’ “Flatirons” is an evocative rendering of the mountain range situated to the southwest of Boulder, Colorado. It is dedicated to “the Ute and Arapaho,” tribal communities who lived in this region for centuries, and the images that Cervantes assembles in a series of surrealistic vignettes convey aspects of the communal life that has vanished as a result of the advance of the European social order. In the opening lines, Cervantes depicts the mountains as “ghosts/ of slaughtered mules,” establishing the ethos of loss that is one of the...
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