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Thank you.

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Being called tireless
makes you tired.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's an honor to be here and
to have had various things

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to do with the Poetry
Center over most

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of that period from
1984, starting out

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with just displaying books now
and then at poetry readings.

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I've given a lot of readings in
the last two or three months,

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even though only one in Tucson,
and I've read all new work.

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And so now I want
to read old works,

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so I'm trying to
inhabit some old self,

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as I was telling a friend.

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And so I'm going to start
out with that first book,

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Hopeful Buildings,
and the first sequence

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in it, which is called
"A Book of Hours."

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Forward.

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Question of hours.

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The epigraph.

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Beginning again and
again and again,

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explaining composition and
time is a natural thing--

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from Gertrude Stein.

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"What is an hour?

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Say an hour is 60 minutes,
but that is a division, not

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a definition.

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What is an hour?

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An hour is a period of
time and how one fills it.

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One fills it.

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An hour is what we say it is.

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It is.

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Let the hours come.

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Let the hours be filled.

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Let the hours come again."