Word Weapons Bluets

Word Weapons BluetsCecilia Vicua This book brings together the Palabrarmas series by the Chilean born artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicua (born 1948). Images of these workseach a powerful juxtaposition of color, poetry and politicsappear alongside new essays and historical references chosen with the artist. Palabrarmas, a neologism that translates to "word weapons" or "word arms," imagine new ways of seeing language. Taking the form of collages, silkscreens,

hear my song

And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight

replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass

Elizabeth Bishop

ground-turning force that it bears the genuinely radical possibility of not knowing but feeling the difference

cannot be separated

When she feeds streams of “official” language – from Supreme Court opinions to the procedural chatter of Predator drone pilots – through the filter of her poetic investigations

Daarna: met jezelf overleggen hoe je hem terug gaat laten struikelen

as well as redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world

In ‘Graig Syfyrddin’ notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches – the poet’s former home – alternate with found text taken from an online walking forum

Rakim to Rick Ross to Rae Sremmurd

Gaining a perspective on insomnia is hard when in its grip