>> Thank you, Maggie.
So Pura and I get all our books from that new bookstore.
And what's the name of it again?
Biblio, right.
I hope you did too.
Is this too loud?
So I'm really happy to be here.
There is a lot of MFA programs all over the country and I've never said this at any of them
but it's probably the most outstanding faculty, this one than in any one that I can think of.
Iowa has a pretty good faculty.
I think I'd rather be studying with people here right now though.
[ Applause ]
This is a really great place and it's really good company to share.
I'm glad to be here.
Thanks. So I think we're going to start out with three poems
of mine from Science & Steepleflower.
Let me read the English part.
Time and the hour.
The convulsive incision toward light from matter, image from similitude.
Black vowels croaked and flew from the four letter name of God.
In diffuse nebula, non-luminous metals shined in their planets,
the 30 intentions of the shadows condensed below a brightness, the multitude of species emitted
and Ras Algethi glared in Hercules.
So the light came to contain numbers and the first was intoxication
and Giotto was intoxicated painting Scrovegni, 1306.
Out in the fields, wheat, cockleburs, jimson, a farmer stood up his hoe and when that hoe was standing
on its own shadow, he knew and he was certain that he knew.
>> Thank you for being here.
El tiempo y la hora.
La incisión convulsiva desgarró la luz de la materia, la imagen de las semejanza.
Negras vocales graznaron y volaron desde las cuatro letras del nombre de Dios.
Entre la difusa nebulosa brillaron metales no luminosos en sus planetas.
Las 30 intenciones de las sombras se condensaron bajo una brillantez emitida por la multitud
de especies.
Y Ras Algethi resplandeció en Hércules.
Así llegó a contener números la luz e intoxicante fue el primero.
Giotto se intoxicó al pintar a Scrovegni, 1306.
Allá en los campos trigo, ajonjeras, estramonio,
un granjero enderezó su azadón y cuando ese azadón se vio en su propia sombra,
él supo y tuvo la certeza de saberlo.
I just wrote that so it could be translated into Spanish, right?
So I could hear the [? brillaron ?].