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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book

Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book

Vicuna, Cecilia
Vicuna, Cecilia
Borzutzky, Daniel

Hardcover

Caribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral PoetryIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1955161119
ISBN13: 9781955161114
Publisher: Radius Books
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 252
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.70 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

The fruition of decades of labor, Vicuña's poetical works on the cosmologies and myths of the deer are now realized in a gorgeously designed artist's book

Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg's translation Flower World Variations, which Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) first encountered in 1985, Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book brings together nearly 40 years of the artist's poetry, poethical translations and drawings related to cosmologies and mythologies surrounding the deer, and sacrificial dance in cultures around the world. Woven like one of her quipu installations, Vicuña's texts--which include original compositions in Spanish as well as English translations by Daniel Borzutzky--become meditations on translation, not just of the sacred nature of this animal but on how our understandings of ceremony and ritual are transformed by this ongoing process. Taken as inspiration rather than conundrum, the impossibility of translation opens up poetic possibilities for Vicuña as she continues her lifelong exploration into the nature of communication across eras and distant lands, languages and shared symbols within Indigenous spiritualities.

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