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The Xicano Future is Now: Poetry, Performance, and Prolepsis

ADRIAN H. MOLINA’s Bronze Future: Letters for 2045 (2012) is a video chapbook available on YouTube that consists of eight short vignettes, each featuring MOLINA reading one of his long poems. MOLINA describes it on his website as an exploration of “Latino identity, Chicano history and future, cyborg technology, food justice, and sustainability.”1 Each segment is filmed in a different Denver neighborhood using natural light and eschewing external microphones in favor of whatever unassisted sound the camera picks up. Each short film posits the body and voice of the poet, rooted in spaces significant to Denver’s Chicanx history, against the mediating power of video and the internet. Technology creates the conditions of