{"product_id":"cecilia-vicuna-deer-book-libro-venado","title":"Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book\/Libro Venado","description":"\u003cp\u003eRadius Books. Hardcover. Signed by Vicuña. New. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewild and playful, full of surprises and gifts in every page.\u003cbr\u003ei touch it, as a living animal.\u003cbr\u003elet’s pray the deer will help us bring back the dance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Cecilia Vicuña\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation \u003cem\u003eFlower World Variations\u003c\/em\u003e, which Cecilia Vicuña first encountered in 1985, \u003cem\u003eDeer Book \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together nearly forty years of the artist’s poetry, “poethical” translations, and drawings related to cosmologies and mythologies surrounding the deer, and sacrificial dance in cultures around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eWoven like one of her quipu installations, Vicuña’s texts—which include original compositions in Spanish as well as English translations by Daniel Borzutzky—become meditations on translation, not just of the sacred nature of this animal but on how our understandings of ceremony and ritual are transformed, by this ongoing process. Taken as inspiration rather than conundrum, the impossibility of translation opens up poetic possibilities for Vicuña as she continues her lifelong exploration into the nature of communication across eras and distant lands, languages and shared symbols within Indigenous spiritualities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56463505719462,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/deer1.webp?v=1778612764","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/cecilia-vicuna-deer-book-libro-venado","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}