Poems are really
like phantoms...

These poems are really like phantoms, you know, especially when you read them in English because they don't... make any sense either in Spanish or in English, of course, and some people who read them in English may think they do in Spanish it ain't true people who read them in Spanish they think that maybe in Quechua they do - ain't so they don't make any meaning in any meaning, you know that's the whole point.

Explore Cecilia Vicuña's work in greater detail through the following essays and audio clip:

Poems are really like phantoms...
"Spinning the Common Thread" by Lucy R. Lippard
"Cryptic Weaving" by Hugo Méndez-Ramírez