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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.96,0:00:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's said that to be a poet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.95,0:00:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to go to hell and back.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.17,0:00:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time I visited the prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.35,0:00:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was not surprised by the noise\Nof the padlocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.02,0:00:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the closing doors,\Nor the cell bars,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.24,0:00:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or by any of the things\NI had imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.25,0:00:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe because the prison\Nis in a quite open space.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.56,0:00:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.69,0:00:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seagulls fly overhead,\Nand you feel like you're next to the sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.33,0:00:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're really close to the beach.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.38,0:00:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, the gulls are looking\Nfor food in the dump near the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.25,0:00:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went farther inside and I suddenly saw\Ninmates moving across the corridors.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.89,0:00:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then it was as if I stepped back\Nand thought
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.97,0:01:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could have very well been\None of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.78,0:01:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had another story,\Nanother context, different luck.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.46,0:01:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because nobody - nobody -\Ncan choose where they're born.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.79,0:01:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2009, I was invited to join a project
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.45,0:01:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that San Martín National University\Nconducted at the Unit 48 penitentiary,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.86,0:01:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to coordinate a writing workshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.08,0:01:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison service ceded some land\Nat the end of the prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.52,0:01:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is where they constructed\Nthe University Center building.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.15,0:01:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time I met with the prisoners,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.57,0:01:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them why they were asking\Nfor a writing workshop
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.24,0:01:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they told me they wanted \Nto put on paper
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.90,0:01:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that they couldn't say and do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.06,0:02:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right then I decided that I wanted poetry\Nto enter the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.43,0:02:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said to them\Nwhy don't we work with poetry,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.04,0:02:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they knew what poetry was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.38,0:02:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nobody had a clue\Nwhat poetry really was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.62,0:02:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also suggested to me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.26,0:02:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the workshop should be\Nnot just for the inmates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.78,0:02:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking university classes, \Nbut for all the inmates.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.64,0:02:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I said\Nthat to start this workshop,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.81,0:02:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I needed to find a tool\Nthat we all had in common.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.65,0:02:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That tool was language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.76,0:02:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had language, we had the workshop.\NWe could have poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.95,0:02:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I hadn't considered\Nwas that inequality exists in prison, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.77,0:02:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the prisoners hadn't even\Ncompleted grammar school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.90,0:03:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many couldn't use cursive,\Ncould barely print.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.41,0:03:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't write fluently, either.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.08,0:03:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started looking for short poems.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.69,0:03:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very short, but very powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.76,0:03:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we started to read, and we'd read\None author, then another author,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.51,0:03:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by reading such short poems,\Nthey all began to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.98,0:03:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what the poetic language did\Nwas to break a certain logic,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.64,0:03:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and create another system.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.39,0:03:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breaking the logic of language\Nalso breaks the logic of the system
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.99,0:03:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under which they've learned to respond.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.55,0:03:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a new system appeared,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.04,0:03:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new rules that made them\Nunderstand very quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.20,0:03:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- very quickly -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.08,0:03:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that with poetic language
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.23,0:03:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would be able to say\Nabsolutely whatever they wanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.48,0:04:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's said that to be a poet\Nyou have to go to hell and back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.48,0:04:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have plenty of hell.\NPlenty of hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.97,0:04:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them once said:\N"In prison you never sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.59,0:04:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can never sleep in jail.\NYou can never close your eyelids."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.35,0:04:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, like I’m doing now,\NI gave them a moment of silence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.71,0:04:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then said,\N“That's what poetry is, you guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.31,0:04:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in this prison universe\Nthat you have all around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.49,0:04:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything you say\Nabout how you never sleep,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.77,0:04:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it exudes fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.46,0:04:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the things that go unwritten --\Nall of that is poetry."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.47,0:04:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started appropriating that hell;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.68,0:04:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we plunged ourselves, headfirst,\Ninto the seventh circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.18,0:04:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that seventh circle of hell,\Nour very own, beloved circle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.22,0:05:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they learned that they could\Nmake the walls invisible,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.43,0:05:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they could make the windows yell,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.60,0:05:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we could hide inside the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.50,0:05:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the first year\Nof the workshop had ended,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.46,0:05:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we organized a little closing party,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.87,0:05:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you do when a job is done\Nwith so much love,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.56,0:05:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you want to celebrate with a party.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.51,0:05:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We called family, friends, \Nthe university authorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.98,0:05:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing the inmates\Nhad to do was read a poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.32,0:05:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and receive their diplomas and applause.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.56,0:05:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was our simple party.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.10,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing I want to leave you with
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.69,0:05:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the moment in which those men,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.02,0:05:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of them just huge\Nwhen standing next to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.52,0:05:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the young boys - so young,\Nbut with an enormous pride,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.23,0:06:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,held their papers and trembled\Nlike little kids and sweated,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.08,0:06:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and read their poems with their\Nvoices completely broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.04,0:06:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That moment made me think a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.96,0:06:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that for most of them,\Nit was surely the very first time
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.07,0:06:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that someone applauded them\Nfor something they had done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.81,0:06:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In prison there are things\Nthat can't be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.26,0:06:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In prison, you can't dream.\NIn prison, you can't cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.12,0:06:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are words that are virtually\Nforbidden, like the word "time,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.15,0:06:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the word "future," the word "wish".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.02,0:06:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we dared to dream, and to dream a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.32,0:06:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We decided\Nthat they were going to write a book.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.13,0:07:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only did they write a book,\Nbut they also bound it themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.55,0:07:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was at the end of 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.64,0:07:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, we doubled the bet\Nand wrote another book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.05,0:07:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we bound that one, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.68,0:07:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a short time ago,\Nat the end of last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.47,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I see week after week,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is how they're turning\Ninto different people;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.36,0:07:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how they're being transformed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.90,0:07:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How words are empowering them\Nwith a dignity they had never known,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.25,0:07:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they couldn't even imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.33,0:07:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had no idea such dignity\Ncould come from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.13,0:07:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the workshop, in that beloved hell\Nwe share, we all give something.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.40,0:07:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We open our hands and hearts and give\Nwhat we have, what we can.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.100,0:07:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us;\Nall of us equally.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.15,0:07:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you feel that at least\Nin a small way
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.77,0:08:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're repairing\Nthat huge social fracture
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.42,0:08:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which makes it so that for many of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.63,0:08:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison is their only destination.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.17,0:08:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember a verse\Nby a tremendous poet, a great poet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.59,0:08:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our Unit 48 workshop,\NNicolás Dorado:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.40,0:08:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will need an infinite thread\Nto sew up this huge wound."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.48,0:08:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry does that; it sews up\Nthe wounds of exclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.00,0:08:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It opens doors. \NPoetry works as a mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.42,0:08:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It creates a mirror, which is the poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.76,0:08:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recognize themselves,\Nthey look at themselves in the poem
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.74,0:08:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and write from who they are,\Nand are from what they write.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.81,0:09:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to write,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.51,0:09:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they need to appropriate\Nthe moment of writing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.70,0:09:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a moment\Nof extraordinary freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.16,0:09:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to get into their heads,\Nsearch for that bit of freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.10,0:09:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can never be taken away\Nwhen they write
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.12,0:09:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is also useful\Nto realize that freedom is possible
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.64,0:09:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even inside a prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.97,0:09:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the only bars we have\Nin our wonderful space
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.24,0:09:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the word "bars,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.10,0:09:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that all of us in our hell\Nburn with happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.96,0:09:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we light the wick of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.67,0:09:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.14,0:10:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you a lot about the prison,\Na lot about what I experience
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.60,0:10:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every week, and how I enjoy it\Nand transform myself with the inmates.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.18,0:10:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't know how much I'd like it
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.59,0:10:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you could feel, live, experience,\Neven for a few seconds,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.16,0:10:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I enjoy every week\Nand what makes me who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.15,0:10:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.23,0:10:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martín Bustamante: \NThe heart chews tears of time;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.46,0:10:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blinded by that light,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.35,0:10:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it hides the speed of existence
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.72,0:10:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the images go rowing by.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.87,0:10:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It fights; it hangs on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.85,0:11:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart cracks under sad gazes,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.55,0:11:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rides on storms that spread fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.33,0:11:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lifts chests lowered by shame,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.45,0:11:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows that it's not just reading\Nand going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.63,0:11:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also wishes to see the infinite blue.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.46,0:11:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart sits down to think about things,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.18,0:11:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fights to avoid being ordinary,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.90,0:11:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tries to love without hurting,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.32,0:11:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breathes the sun,\Ngiving courage to itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.02,0:11:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrenders, travels toward reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.39,0:11:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart fights among the swamps,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.29,0:11:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skirts the edge of the underworld,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.82,0:11:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falls exhausted, but won't give in\Nto what's easy,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.10,0:11:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while irregular steps of intoxication
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.59,0:11:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wake up,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.17,0:11:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wake the stillness.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.06,0:11:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Martín Bustamante,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.76,0:11:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a prisoner in Unit 48 of San Martín,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.25,0:11:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today is my day of temporary release.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.11,0:12:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for me, poetry and literature\Nhave changed my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.78,0:12:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.90,0:12:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cristina Domenech: Thank you!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.32,0:12:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)