A 2010 public art project along a stretch of Mountain Avenue in Tucson is home to more than a dozen granite boulders engraved with poetry.
TUCSON, Ariz. — It has been called the perfect integration of visual art and poetry. But most people don't even realize it's there.
"It's been here for quite awhile," said Ofelia Zepeda, a University of Arizona Professor of Linguistics. "They're very visible. People think they're just boulders." He's the same artist who designed the award-wining Rattlesnake Bridge over Broadway at the entrance to downtown."It was sort of intimidating," Zepeda said standing in front of one of the boulders."Because you're going to have your words engraved in stone. So they're going to be there for a long time."
Many of the poems pay homage to the desert, the desert creatures and our amazing views. At least one is more instructional. It helps keep the O'odham language alive in a neighborhood Ofelia and her husband have called home for four decades.
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