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Instan by Cecilia Vicuņa Poems 88 pages $15 ISBN: 0-932716-50-4
ISBN: 0-932716-60-1
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A long poem, a series of drawings, a fable, a multilingual dictionary--INSTAN is an exciting hybrid by Chilean poet, performance artist, and sculptor Cecilia Vicuņa. Composed in handwritten lines, the poem/drawings give the unmediated effect of work created in a private journal. INSTAN is a multilingual book without translation, in which Vicuņa places herself at the edge or limit of the experience of being in multiple languages. INSTAN explores a poetic language created at the level of the cognate, the ancient common roots of both English and Spanish.
"One of the most vivid and creative personalities of the Latin American scene" (Quimera, a Spanish-language magazine), Cecilia Vicuņa works in the tradition of the oral poetry of the High Andes, bringing forth a poetic universe of ancient resonance and new forms.