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Instan
by Cecilia Vicuña 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 Vicuña. 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 Vicuña 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
Vicuña works in the tradition of the oral poetry of the High
Andes, bringing forth a poetic universe of ancient resonance and new
forms.