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Some of the greatest Latin American poets have been women. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, María Sabina, and Violeta Parra are among them, but their true place in the history of poetry has yet to be fully acknowledged.

— Cecilia Vicuña The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009)

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From the start, my work has been an interaction between art and poetry.

Interview (2019)

We have scholarship and scientific proof that climate change exists, so what is it going to take for people to understand and participate?

Interview (2020)

I began to define my work as “about to happen” in the 1970s. This is my view of how art exists: art is not what you think it is, but art is what is about to happen. It’s consciousness and awareness.

Interview (2019)

For me, I think my inspiration is the attitude and the feeling that you are here to sense, feel, shift, relate, and dance with art.

Interview (2020)

If you think about human beings, [laughter] people have been people for almost a million years, and what we understand as art and art history is only a fleeting moment in that story.

Interview (2020)

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