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Cecilia Vicuna
Origin of Weaving (Variation)

Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hilo
Un poquito de hiiiiiiiiiii-lo
Un poquito de hilo

el hilo está roto
concha de tu madre
el hilo está roto
qué vas a venir, él
tu hilando siempre
tu hilo mas roto
que un sol
más roto
más roto
más desecho que nada
más desecho que todo
desecho des punto
más desecho que cualquier desecho
sutra, sutra, sutra
sutra estás diciendo
sutra, that's a sacred text
tantra, tantra, tantra, chanta que estás chancheando
tantra que estás chancheando
that also means thread
I Ching, el I Ching
el Tao Te Ching
also thread
qué te has imaginado
otro hilo más
Quechua
also a thread
hasta cuando vas a estar
en esta cuestión
de thread, thread, thread

Origin of Weaving is a variant of the text Palabra e Hilo/Word & Thread by Cecilia Vicuña, translated by Rosa Alcalá, Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996. Also available in English and in its original form.

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Cecilia Vicuna

Poems:
Origin of Weaving
Word and Thread

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Interviews:
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Poems:
Origin of Weaving (variation) - Spanish
Origin of Weaving (variation) - English
Origin of Weaving (original)
Word and Thread (variation) - Spanish
Word and Thread (variation) - English
Bibliography

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Poems are really like phantoms...
On Latin American Cities...
On Great Chilean Poets...
Vicuña on the TV World...

Essays:
Cryptic Reading
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Essays:
20th Century Mexican Poetry
Homenaje a la Poesía Chilena
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
SUNY Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center
Web and Antiweb

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