Cecilia Vicuña with Rosa Alcalá and Daniel Borzutzky - January 28, 2023

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UA Poetry Center, MOCA Tucson

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MOCA Tucson
Cecilia Vicuña with Rosa Alcalá and Daniel Borzutzky

Poet and performance artist Cecilia Vicuña joins with poets and translators Daniel Borzutzky and Rosa Alcalá to read at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in honor of Vicuña's exhibit Sonoran Quipu. Borzutzky and Alcalá both read forthcoming work, as well as pieces by Vicuña they have translated into English. Vicuña reads and improvises from Spit Temple (2012), a selection of past performances transcribed, edited, and translated by Alcalá.

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Welcome on behalf of MOCA Tucson and Introductions
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by Laura Copelin

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Welcome on behalf of the Poetry Center
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by Diana Marie Delgado

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Opening Remarks and Excerpt from The Deer Book
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From the unpublished manuscript-in-translation The Deer Book by Cecila Vicuña, translated by Daniel Borzutzky. 

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Uncollected.

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"The Devouring Economy of Nature"
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From an unpublished manuscript forthcoming in 2024.

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Uncollected.

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"Utopia, 527 and 528"
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From an unpublished manuscript forthcoming in 2024.

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Uncollected.

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"Performance of Becoming Human, #1025: The Police or the Bank of America"
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From an unpublished manuscript forthcoming in 2024.

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Uncollected.

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Excerpt from Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1998
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Vicuña, Cecilia. Spit Temple. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012, pp. 164-166.

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"To Hear Is To Strike Gold: A Response to Pascua Lama"
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Published version bears the title "To Hear Is to Strike Gold.” Differs slightly from published version.

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Vicuña, Cecilia. New and Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Kelsey Street Press, 2018.

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"The Tree"
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Uncollected.

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"Would You"
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From an unpublished manuscript titled You forthcoming in 2024.

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Uncollected.

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Opening Remarks and Excerpt from Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1998
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Vicuña, Cecilia. Spit Temple. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012, pp. 166-167.

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Excerpt from Krannert Art Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
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Differs from published version. 

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Vicuña, Cecilia. Spit Temple. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012, pp. 205-208.

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