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So I'm going to read you a
couple of the translations.

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And I'm not--

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I'll read just two in
French, and then I'll

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read the translations
just so you

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get a little taste
of the original,

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with my apologies for my accent.

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What this is a co-authored work.

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The poet Virginie
Lalucq meditated

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on the only extant photograph
of Fortino Samano, who

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was a Zapatista lieutenant
and counterfeiter.

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That photograph of Zapatista
moments before he's

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staring nonchalantly
at the firing squad

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that is about to execute him.

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And she saw an exhibition
of the photographer

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of the Mexican
Revolution, Casasola,

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and was fascinated with this.

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So she's meditating on what
is the photographic image

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transposed to the poetic image.

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What is it doing?

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What can it do?

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And Jean-Luc Nancy, a
philosopher of aesthetics,

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was very taken with her series.

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So he wrote a series
of commentaries,

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which became really a meditation
on Poetry, the poetic image,

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but also Poetry
with a capital P.

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So I'll just read
you a few of these.

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Combien mes bureaux
étaient-ils charmants !

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L'image ne dit rien du règlement
de compte central de la fusillade

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et de légers liserés de sang
qui [INAUDIBLE]

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Pour l'instant, je survis.

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Pour l'instant,
mon casier judiciaire se  vide.

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Et encore sans la somme.

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Si l'exécution fut sommaire ou non,

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le mur a des allures
de figurant derrière.

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Au premier plan,
l'image n'est pas un statu quo,

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pas plus que je ne suis un héros
ou un acteur de cinéma.

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L'image ne dit pas
si mon rythme cardiaque

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s'accélérera.

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À cet instant précis,
je souris largement,

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je suis fort,
je suis le pire salaud qui soit.

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Je me fusille, je fume
mon dernier cigare,

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après quoi, me relève
et vous souris encore.