Ithaca College

Ruth Irupé Sanabria will be giving a reading at Ithaca College!  

Monday, November 3rd at 5:30pm

Textor 103. 

Irupé Sanabria's work is a powerful testament to her bilingualism and biculturalism. Along with capturing her unique experience as a young Latina in the U.S., her poetry is testimony to her experience as a daughter of political prisoners in Argentina and the experience of forced exile to the United States.

 Ruth Irupé Sanabria is the recent winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and her work, When the Strange House Testifies (Bilingual Press), was named 2nd best Latino book of poetry of the year in 2010.

"Hija" (The Strange House Testifies)                                                                          

I am the daughter of doves
That disappeared into dust

Hear my pulse whisper:
             progre-so
             justi-cia
             progre-so
             justi-cia

I have many friends and thirty thousand
Warrior angels to watch
Over my exiled skin.

Look what occupies the four chambers of my heart:
              re/vo/lu/ción

You will know me by this.
I am the daughter that never forgets.
                                                      -Ruth Irupé Sanabria

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the H&S Dean's Office, the Office of the Provost, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Diversity Awareness Committee

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Annette Levine at alevine@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3252. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.