Cecilia Vicuña
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LINEbreak Reading at the Charles Morrow and Associates Studio, New York City, September 1995
Cecilia improvises a song in Quechua (0:30): RealAudio
Cecilia performs a multilingual quazar (1:40): RealAudio
Water (3:00): MP3
Complete recording (28:59): MP3
Reading for What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010), Virtual Program, February 27, 2021
VIDEO
For full list of readers and more information, see complete listing .
Performance and Reading at Princeton University, with pianist/composer Ricardo Gallo, April 4, 2018
Complete recording (01:20:27): MP3
Video available here .
An Illustrated Conversation at the Kelly Writers House, February 16, 2017
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Complete reading (1:27:09): MP3
Opening remarks by Al Filreis (3:07): MP3
Introduction by Laynie Brown (11:06): MP3
"You made me cry..." (12:39): MP3
Viewing of "Fire over water" (7:13): MP3
Fragment of "Quipu Mapocho" (6:54): MP3
Discussion of two videos (6:57): MP3
"Colliding and not colliding at the same time" (3:55): MP3
"Last night, I went to..." (3:43): MP3
Discussion of shifting attentions (2:49): MP3
Discussion of aesthetics as change and despair (8:28): MP3
Discussion of the internet, mind, and glaciers (11:51): MP3
Reading for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, April 15, 2016
Complete recording available here .
in association with the exhibition "The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books"
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Complete performance (46:35): MP3
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Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium Vol. 5 , The Poetry Project, October 14, 2015
Complete reading (23:08): MP3
On Jerome Rothenberg (1:56): MP3
Reading "Incantation for Jaguar Macaw Madness" (6:30): MP3
Reading from "Wild Ways" by Ikkyū (4:51): MP3
Reading "Hypocrite Women" by Denise Levertov (2:58): MP3
Reading poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (3:58): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar , NYC, April 4, 2015
Complete reading (41:28): MP3
Introduction (3:12): MP3
"I said, when the talk of the wind..." (4:44): MP3
"I actually came in my last..." (2:57): MP3
"The guanacos..." (4:08): MP3
"So this is the story..." (5:06): MP3
"I felt so tired before coming here..." (2:30): MP3
"Poetry is an invitation..." (3:25): MP3
On dirty poems and the old (1:02): MP3
"Poema purtiana" (0:54): MP3
"Puritan poem" (translated) (0:37): MP3
"Teresa la imbécil" (Teresa the Idiot) (2:52): MP3
From Kisa Alango - Cecilia Vicuña (0:59): MP3
Chanting fragments of her poem Instan (Kelsey Street Press 2002), improvising on a Tibetan dramyin, Berkeley, February 17, 2012
Alba del habla/mother of time (4:38): MP3
Luz y del qué/cúal es nuestra verdad? (8:20): MP3
Instan , a journey inside words, an oral improvisation (5:27): MP3
Recorded by Ross Craig.
kunter ko (water condor), 2012
Alba de Habla, Dawn of Speech
poems for the spirit of water, composed in response to the destruction of glaciers in Chile
1. Apu miski yawar (Powerful sweet blood) (2:31): MP3
2. Kunter Niño (Condor child) (4:42): MP3
3. El Hueco, el sonido, el hueso (The hollow, the sound, the bone) (1:32): MP3
4. Ballena azul, Oro de oir (Blue whale click, Hearing is the gold (3:36): MP3
5. Oro es tu hilar (Gold is your spinning) (2:29): MP3
6. El Augau es el oro (Water is the gold) (2:27): MP3
7. Tu ira es el oro (Your rage is the gold) (1:45): MP3
8. Quipu menstrual (Menstrual Quipu) (1:32): MP3
9. Cóndor conrdón (Condor cord) (1:15): MP3
10. Kuntur Ko (Water condor) (3:05): MP3
11. Apaéme con el cristal (Pair me with crystal) (1:26): MP3
12. Agüita (Little Water) (2:28): MP3
13. Melinko Lauen (Medicine mist of the waterfall (2:13): MP3
14. Alba del halba (Dawn of Speech) (9:41): MP3
15. Na ni ná Compartir (No sharing, 2nd part of Alba del Halba) (5:04): MP3
Recorded at NYU's Department of Recorded Music, Tisch, 2006
produced and engineered by Balan Villanueva
mastered by Randy Merrill at Masterdisk, NYC
special thanks to: Paul Geluso, Jim Anderson, Noah Simon, Alex de Turk, Balan Villanueva, Randy Merrill, and James O'Hern
cover photo: César Paternosto
graphic design: Diane Bertolo
Torn Sound Records
Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics #239: Two Masters, November 3, 2011
Complete segment (31:45): MP3
Introduction by Leonard Shwartz (1:03): MP3
Vicuña discusses writing "Saborami" (1:54): MP3
Discussion of language in "Saborami" (1:44): MP3
"Mastaba" (0:51): MP3
"Solitude" (0:31): MP3
Fragment of "Expedition of the Bibliotecarios" (1:53): MP3
"Puesta de sol" (0:57): MP3
Discussion of paintings in "Saborami" (1:07): MP3
"Pain things and explanation" (5:10): MP3
Discussion of readings (0:48): MP3
Discussion of relationship between "I" and "We" (0:48): MP3
Discussion of indigenous poetry (2:25): MP3
Reading indigenous inspired poetry from "Saborami" (1:09): MP3
Discussion of "Saborami's" new edition (5:21): MP3
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Complete recording (36:41): MP4
Flux Poetics; Writing in Cultural Duality, Belladonna* Reading Series , New York, April 19, 2011
Introduction (2:23): MP3
Untitled (2:58): MP3
We All (4:32): MP3
As A Child (2:59): MP3
The Primary Echoes (4:47): MP3
Complete reading (19:08): MP3
A screening and discussion of Kon Kon , a documentary poem, Kelly Writers House, February 3, 2011
Complete recording (1:24:40): MP3
Excerpt, discussing ritual in relation to poetry (6:45): YouTube
"Knotations on a Quipu"
Introduction by Steve Clay (3:07): MP3
Talk (40:25): MP3
Discussion (15:39): MP3
Complete recording (1:00:32): MP3
To The Awakening of a Trans-human Inheritance (1:42): MP3
So This (2:30): MP3
For The Goddess, Her City, And The Marriage of Her Son and Daughter (3:07): MP3
When I Said (2:14): MP3
The Hair, the Hair, the Hair (1:55): MP3
The Wall Street Inferno (2:30): MP3
Complete reading (16:09): MP3
Complete reading (17:15): MP3
Introduction by Jerome Rothenberg (1:03): MP3
Vicuña sings and chants (5:06): MP3
"Maria Sabina" (5:16): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club , March 28, 2009
My Body Knows the Dark (8:56): MP3
They Look Nice From Here (2:04): MP3
La Masacre De Un Pueblo (Partial) (1:13): MP3
The People's Waterfall (3:32): MP3
When This Language Disappeared (1:30): MP3
Untitled (2:30): MP3
When The Tsunami Begins (7:55): MP3
On "The Economist" Article (1:11): MP3
Complete recording (29:53): MP3
Writers Without Borders Reading, Kelly Writers House, April 15, 2008
Complete reading (50:23): MP3
Introduction by Al Filreis (2:47): MP3
Introduction by Charles Bernstein (6:43): MP3
Cecilia begins reading (5:04): MP3
"That was a vicuna thing..." (1:32): MP3
"Dis solving into union" (1:32): MP3
"A word moves a beat..." (3:56): MP3
"Experience must be transitory" (4:02): MP3
Cecilia talks about Felix Bernstein and reads what she left out (4:02): MP3
"Concha de Carey" (2:06): MP3
"Mother of pearl..." (1:03): MP3
Discussion of space and time (1:50): MP3
"Oír Orar" (2:46): MP3
"I heard of the new hit..." (1:55): MP3
Introduction of "Nazca: The Desert Line" (4:27): MP3
"Nazca: The Desert Line" (abridged) (1:46): MP3
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Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia came to the last poem of her Kelly Writers House reading. She weaves and unweaves the
strands of the poetics of the Americas, redrawing the borders
of our poetics with the string-like lines of her words, making
imaginary fabrics in which we are embraced.
(mp4, 2 min. 8 sec., 47.5 mb)
mtChondrial Eve (Mother of Threads) at Art Radio WPS1, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, March 16, 2008
Complete recording (21:31): MP3
Appearing on Cross-Cultural Poetics #26, "Word in Words," March 8, 2004
Introduction (0:46): MP3
Reading from Water Poems (4:20): MP3
Water and fluidity of language and culture in poetry (2:37): MP3
Influence of Quechua language (2:31): MP3
Jose Maria Argueda's influence on Vicuna's work (1:49): MP3
Performance of poetry (1:12): MP3
Reading a poem performed for St. Mark's Poetry Project in 2002 (5:56): MP3
Form and content of performance poetry (1:25): MP3
Discussing current work (0:52): MP3
Overlaps of Quechua and Chinese artistic production (5:07): MP3
Comments on upcoming work; conclusion of first half (2:52): MP3
Complete reading (29:28): MP3
Wednesday Night Series: Ammiel Alcalay, Cecilia Vicuña, St. Mark's Church, NY, May 15, 2002
Library of Congress recording (1:03:26): link
Seminar with Dennis Tedlock, SUNY Buffalo, March 19, 2001
Part 1 (1:14:09): MP3
Introduction (2:47): MP3
"Hoy considencio" (11:11): MP3
Discussion of Gabriela Mistral (1:43): MP3
Vicuña recalls two stories (3:21): MP3
Q&A and discussion (54:15): MP3>
Part 2 (2:25): MP3
Introduction (Barbara Cole) (10:18): MP3
Untitled (4:25): MP3
She (2:00): MP3
cloud-net (5:42): MP3
Equinox (4:02): MP3
Comisura (2:06): MP3
Plaid Skirt (5:39): MP3
Intervariant (3:27): MP3
For The One Who Makes The Pottery (2:41): MP3
A Shifting Dune (1:45): MP3
Word and Thread (2:48): MP3
Thanks (0:36): MP3
Complete reading (47:52):
MP3
Introduction by Elise Paschen, who is welcomed by Charles Bernstein
Introduction (8:27): MP3
And if I devoted my life (3:51): MP3
Entering (2:55): MP3
From "Palabrarmas" (2:08): MP3
Word (1:35): MP3
La Luz (3:43): MP3
(Untitled) (1:57): MP3
The Poem is the Animal (0:13): MP3
From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (6:24): MP3
From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (0:59): MP3
Goodbye to Hummingbird (2:27): MP3
Basurame (1:53): MP3
Complete recording (37:48): MP3
Complete reading (51:27): MP3
Introduction (0:58): MP3
Song for the snow to go away (2:22): MP3
On myth (5:11): MP3
From "Unravelling Words and Weaving Water" (8:19): MP3
Complete recording (16:56): MP3
Reading by Sandra Maria Esteves and Cecilia Vicuna, St. Mark’s Church, NY, December 13, 1989
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
Side A (41:37): link
Side B (22:20): link
Also of interest:
I'll Drown My Book , a celebration of the I'll Drown My Book anthology held at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012
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