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Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:32.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's said that to be a poet you have to\Ndescend to the underworld once.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.98,0:00:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time I entered the prison, \NI was not surprised by the noise
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.98,0:00:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the padlocks, the closing doors,\Nor the bars,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.11,0:00:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anything of all the things\NI had imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.10,0:00:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe because the prison\Nis in a quite open space.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.92,0:00:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.49,0:01:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seagulls fly through the sky and\Nyou think you are next to the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.11,0:01:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you are really close to the beach.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.13,0:01:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, the gulls go to the dump\Nnear the prison looking for food.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.25,0:01:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I continued walking in and I suddenly saw\Ninmates moving across the corridors.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.89,0:01:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was as if I stepped back\Nand thought that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.10,0:01:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could have perfectly been\None of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.72,0:01:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had another story,\Nanother context, another luck.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.26,0:01:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because nobody, nobody,\Ncan choose where to be born.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.00,0:01:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2009 I was invited to join\Na project
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.50,0:01:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the San Martín National University\Nhas in the Unit 48,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.86,0:01:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to coordinate a writing workshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.12,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison service ceded some\Nland at the end of the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.56,0:02:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right there they constructed the\Nbuilding of the University Center.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.54,0:02:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time I met with the prisoners,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.26,0:02:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them why they were\Nasking for a writing workshop
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.81,0:02:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they told me they wanted \Nto put on paper
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.39,0:02:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that they couldn't say\Nand do.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.92,0:02:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There I decided that I wanted\Npoetry to enter the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.27,0:02:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I told them why we don't \Nwork with poetry,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.04,0:02:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they knew what poetry was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.78,0:02:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody had a clue about what\Npoetry really was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.38,0:02:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides, they explained to me\Nthat the workshop was not only
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.56,0:02:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for graduated inmates,\Nbut also for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.78,0:02:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the common inmates.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.49,0:02:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I said that to start\Nthis workshop I needed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.15,0:02:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some tool that we all have.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.64,0:02:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that tool was language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.75,0:03:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we had language, we had the workshop.\NWe could have poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.95,0:03:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I didn't consider was\Nthe inequality also in prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.83,0:03:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of them that didn't even \Nhave a complete primary education.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.88,0:03:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many couldn't use cursive,\Nbut hardly print.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.31,0:03:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't write fluently either.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.89,0:03:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we started looking for short\Npoems. Short, but powerful indeed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.37,0:03:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And started to read, and read \Nan author and another author
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.01,0:03:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by reading those short poems,\Nthey all begin to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.85,0:03:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what the poetic language did\Nwas to break
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.55,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a certain logic and \Nit created another system.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.04,0:03:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breaking the logic of language is \Nalso breaking the logic of the system
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.80,0:03:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are used to respond to.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.79,0:04:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a new system appeared,\Nsome new rules
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.18,0:04:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that made them understand really fast,\Nbut really fast,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.66,0:04:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that with the poetic language they would\Nabsolutely say what they wanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.38,0:04:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's said that to be a poet you have to\Ndescend to the hell once.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.28,0:04:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have plenty of hell.\NPlenty of hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.03,0:04:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them once said:\N"In prison you never sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.23,0:04:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can never sleep in jail.\NYou can never close your eyelids".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.35,0:04:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, I did like this now,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.18,0:04:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a moment of silence and tell them:\NThat is poetry, that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.21,0:04:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison universe is there,\Nin hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.35,0:05:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All this you say,\Nthat you never sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.40,0:05:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This exudes fear. All the unwritten.\NAll this is poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.27,0:05:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started appropriating \Nthat hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.54,0:05:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we plunged ourselves into,\Nthe seventh circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.07,0:05:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that seventh circle of hell,\Nour own and so beloved circle,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.05,0:05:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they learned that walls could \Nbe invisible, windows could
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.74,0:05:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yell and that we could hide\Ninside the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.55,0:05:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first year the workshop\Nhad finished, we organized
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.67,0:05:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little closing party\Nas they are done
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.01,0:05:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a job is done\Nwith so much love.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.36,0:05:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to celebrate\Nand have a party.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.70,0:05:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We called family, friends, \Nthe university authorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.100,0:05:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing they had to do\Nwas reading a poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.78,0:05:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,receiving their diploma, applause and\Nthat was our simple party.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.65,0:06:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing I want to leave you with\Nis the moment those men,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.84,0:06:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at times huge when they stand by me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.49,0:06:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or very young boys,\Nbut with an enormous pride,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.96,0:06:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they held their paper and trembled\Nlike kids and sweated
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.56,0:06:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and read their poems with their\Nvoice completely broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.73,0:06:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That moment made me think a lot\Nthat surely most of them
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.73,0:06:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were applauded for the first time\Nfor something they had done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.81,0:06:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In prison there are things\Nthat can't be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.26,0:06:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In prison you can't dream,\Nin prison you can't cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.52,0:07:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are words that are virtually\Nforbidden like the word time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.90,0:07:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the word future, the word wish.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.03,0:07:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we dared to dream\Nand to dream a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.32,0:07:17.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we decided that they \Nwere going to write a book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.86,0:07:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only did they write a book\Nbut they also bound it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.29,0:07:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was by the end of 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.11,0:07:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We doubled the bet\Nand wrote another book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.71,0:07:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And bound another book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.39,0:07:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a short time ago,\Nby the end of last year.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.47,0:07:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I see week after week\Nis how they are turning into
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.65,0:07:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different people, how they are\Nbeing transformed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.71,0:07:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How words empower them with\Na dignity they hadn't heard of,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.16,0:07:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they couldn't even imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.13,0:07:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had no idea of such dignity\Nand that could come from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.70,0:08:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the workshop, in that beloved hell\Nwe have, we all give.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.09,0:08:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We open our hands and hearts and give
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.48,0:08:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we have, what we can. All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.48,0:08:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us equally.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.82,0:08:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that way you feel that\Nat least, in little proportion
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.38,0:08:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are repairing that huge\Nsocial fracture that makes that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.24,0:08:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for many of them prison is\Ntheir only destination.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.56,0:08:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember a verse of a\Ntremendous poet, a great poet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.59,0:08:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Unit 48 of our\Nworkshop, Nicolás Dorado:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.54,0:08:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have to get an infinite thread\Nto sew up this huge wound".
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.82,0:09:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry does that. It sews up\NThe wounds of exclusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.71,0:09:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It opens doors. \NPoetry works as a mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.42,0:09:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It creates a mirror, which is the poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.81,0:09:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recognize themselves, they look at\Nthemselves in the poem and write
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.43,0:09:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from who they are and they are\Nfrom what they write.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.81,0:09:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to write, they need\Nto appropriate the moment
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.56,0:09:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of writing which is a moment\Nof extraordinary freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.65,0:09:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to get into their heads,\Nsearch for that bit of freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.68,0:09:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can never be taken away\Nwhen they write
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.45,0:09:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is also useful to\Nrealize that freedom is possible
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.29,0:09:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even inside the jail,\Nand that the only bars we have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.75,0:09:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our wonderful space\Nis the word bars and that all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.84,0:09:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our inferno\Nburn with happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.69,0:09:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we light\Nthe wick of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.70,0:10:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.66,0:10:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you a lot about prison,\Na lot about my experience
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.04,0:10:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every week and how I enjoy it\Nand transform myself with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.68,0:10:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don´t know how much I'd like\Nthat you could feel, live,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.42,0:10:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience, even\Nfor a few seconds,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.10,0:10:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I enjoy every week\Nand makes me who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.15,0:10:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.23,0:11:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The heart chews tears of time
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.46,0:11:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blind by that light
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.33,0:11:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hides the speed of existence
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.74,0:11:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the images row
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.40,0:11:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it fights, it hangs on.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.82,0:11:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart cracks under the sad gazes
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.55,0:11:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rides through storms that spread fire
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.22,0:11:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lifts chests lowered by shame,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.17,0:11:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows that it's not just reading and\Ngoing on,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.61,0:11:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also wishes to see the infinite blue.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.46,0:11:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart sits down to think about things,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.68,0:11:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fights for avoiding commonplaces,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.88,0:11:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tries to love without hurting,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.30,0:11:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breathes the sun giving courage to itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.100,0:11:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrenders, travels to the reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.73,0:11:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heart fights among swamps,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.10,0:11:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,goes along the edge of the underworld,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.81,0:12:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falls weakly and doesn't yield to\Nthe easy way
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.72,0:12:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while irregular steps of intoxication
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.56,0:12:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wake,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.13,0:12:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wake the stillness".
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.05,0:12:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Martín Bustamante,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.01,0:12:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a prisoner\Nin Unit 48 of San Martín,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.02,0:12:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today is my day of temporary release.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.01,0:12:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry and literature
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.89,0:12:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changed my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.30,0:12:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much!\N(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.30,0:12:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CD: Thank you!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.30,0:12:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)