If you think about human beings, [laughter] people have bee… - Cecilia Vicuña

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If you think about human beings, [laughter] people have been people for almost a million years, and what we understand as art and art history is only a fleeting moment in that story.

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Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile.

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Pen Names: Vicuna, Cecilia

Alternative Names: Cecilia Vicuna • Cecilia Vicuña Ramírez

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For me, I think my inspiration is the attitude and the feeling that you are here to sense, feel, shift, relate, and dance with art.

The position of poetry in oral cultures is of tremendous power and reach. In fact, the oral poets say this plainly: the reach of an oral poem is infinite because it can be sensed, it can be heard, it can be told, it’s alive and moving and changing.

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