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Hello, everyone.

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My name is Julie, I work
here at the Poetry Center,

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and I have the
pleasure of introducing

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Ander Monson this afternoon.

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Ander is a builder of things.

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He builds, he
tunnels, he links, he

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creates worlds inside worlds.

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Now please don't get me wrong.

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This is not an
introduction which

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poses as a recruitment offer
for the entire cult following,

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but what I mean to say is,
I think Ander's work speaks

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to his own notion that
inside everything there

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is another thing.

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Inside each self,
there is another.

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From these lines serving
as an introduction of sorts

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to his most recently published
collection of essays vanishing

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point and the website
that accompanies it.

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Ander satisfies the
obsessive need as writers--

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no, as observers, as
catalogers, as note takers,

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as human beings to trace
pathways of thought

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to create worlds.

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His worlds force us into
the directional pull

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of prepositions as
we navigate space.

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Worlds ensue words: about,
above, across, after, against,

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around, at, before, behind,
below, beneath, beside,

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besides, between, beyond, by,
down, during, except, for,

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from, in, insight, into,
like, near, up, off, out, on,

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outside, over, sense, through,
throughout, till, to, toward,

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under, until, up, upon, with,
or, without until the sense

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of meaning, a depiction
of the self emerges.

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Ander's work seems to ask of
us an underlying question.

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Perhaps it is the guerilla
tactic for any writer.

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How far can we travel through?

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How many loopholes
across how many wires

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and over how many bridges?

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Until we finally crawl out,
dust ourselves off, look around

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and recognize what's
truly available to us.

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Perhaps after the journey
through these worlds

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the question is, how do we
take that information and live?

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So I'll be taking signups
for the Ander cult

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following after
the presentation.

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But in the meantime,
please enjoy and help me

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welcome Ander Monson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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