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Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Limits of Language

The poem talks about that edge of oblivion where words begin becoming insufficient. I think at this point, when you literally think of the story and here are people that are looking for basics, a shelter, a blanket, they're having a very hard time. And then I think also maybe Hos Santos talking also about language and how words shelter us too and maybe also keep us apart as well.

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