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The screen is a
shield, like this one.

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But it doesn't have to be.

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"Dear S, a screen as a
shield but also a veil.

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It's sheer and can be shorn.

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There's a neat gap between
these covers, a gate, a gape,

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through which you've
slipped your tang.

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Paper cuts to swordsmith--

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let's name this pagan pageant,
these rows of lines or vines

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that link us together."

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And of course, these
rows of lines or vines

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are the lines of poetry,
affixed to the page, which

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as Cecilia Vicuna
reminded us last night,

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comes from a Greek word
that means trellis.

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And of course, trellising also
came up in Danielle's talk.

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The trellis is the surface
to which lines of writing

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are fixed.

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This poem owes a great
debt to Emmett Williams,

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whose wonderful
book "Sweethearts"

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is on exhibit in the exhibition
that Joanna Drucker put

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together.

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He was an expert of
communicative anagrams.

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I highly recommend checking
out "Sweethearts" if you can.

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"Page, don't cage me.

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Why this mania to name
what's between us?

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That way is carnage,
carnal, carnival.

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We share texts, fleshy network,
your trellis, and my tendency

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to excoriate your fang and my
carnations we like leather.

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You have Ivy.

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I'm a bouquet of charnel
carnations, carrion incarnate.

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Don't shoot the courier, Ace.

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Your cute awry, S"

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So just as a page or just
as a screen can be sheer,

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can be inviting and its
shine can draw us toward it.

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Page also has a violent
side because it's

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a point of connection.

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It also gives us bang.

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It also has this somewhat
violent underpinning.

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And in addition, a
screen comes from a root

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that gives us the making of text
into flesh, charnal carnations,

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carrion incarnate, all of these
words come from that same root

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as does charcuterie because,
of course, the slicing

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and dicing of the flesh is
done with a shining object.

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This poem is
composed of anagrams

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of the word charcuterie I'll
read just the first couple

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of lines.

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"Circa the rue, accrue, their
creature, chi, each recruit,

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a heretic cur, a chic ureter.

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Archer, cutie, a cute
richer curio etcher.

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Airy crush catcher I rue,
coche ire rut, racier chute,

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accrue her it, cacti
hue err, ace their cur.

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Dear S, that trellis
is a metaphor.

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It props me up.

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I propagate agate pages, a
paper argot wrapped tropes.

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Be my apport?

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What are boundaries anyway?

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P.

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Dear P, we're
running out of words.

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So I'll be Kurt, Hershel,
and curtail my tail.

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Your core, a sure, sight.

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I regret the fight.

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Don't forget to write.

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S. P.S. A co-script,
posthaste, postface.

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There is no postscript.

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Sleep tight."

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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