Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean-born poet and artist known for works that address colonialism, the body, and human rights. In her painting Karl Marx (1972), Vicuña situates the coauthor of the Communist Manifesto amidst blossoming trees and a couple in love, compressing history and personal life. Her ongoing series of small sculptures precarios, are reminiscent of the work Joseph Beuys. These spatial poems are comprised of feathers, plastic, wood, wire, and other detritus.“The notion that art and poetry are two completely separate fields is an exclusively academic idea. It’s not at all how an artist or a poet perceives it,” she’s said. “For me, both are deeply intertwined. I consider myself a poet because...