Satires 2.5 (Horace) the over-insistent heir in Thebes who was required by the will of his benefactor to carry her oil-soaked slippery carcass on his shoulders during the funeral procession. "Satire 2.5" is often thought of as the least “Horatian” of the Satires and is often compared to works by Juvenal, a poet of the 1st century AD. Juvenal’s poems focus on the perversions of man and hint at Man’s loss of “his highest potentialities”. Many scholars acknowledge this cynicism in "Satire 2.5" and see a connection between the two authors. As Shackleton Bailey writes, “Uniquely for Horace, it concerns a particular social
Carmen Tafolla exhibiting what Broyles-Gonzales refers to as "an indomitable will to endure and survive" even in the most adverse situations. Tafolla has received multiple literary awards: Carmen Tafolla Project by Texas Public Studio Carmen Tafolla Carmen Tafolla (born 29 July 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chicana writer from San Antonio, Texas, and a professor of Transformative Children's Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014, and was named the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2015-16. Tafolla has written more than twenty books, and won multiple literary awards.