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Homero Aridjis is a treasure.

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He has a long and
distinguished career

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both as a poet, a novelist, a
diplomat, an environmentalist,

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and an activist.

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He is president of the
International PEN club.

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He's been visiting professor
at a number of Mexican

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and American
University including

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my alma mater, Indiana
University, NYU, and Columbia.

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He's won numerous prizes for
his poetry and his fiction,

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and has--

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as I said-- a long,
distinguished career as a poet.

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We're here tonight to
celebrate the publication

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of his new bilingual
anthology of poetry

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bringing together the summa of
his work over the last decades,

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Ojos de otro mirar,
Eyes to See Otherwise.

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And the real beauty
of tonight's event

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is to listen to Homero
read, and therefore, I'm

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going to ask him
to come forward.

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Welcome with me Homero Aridjis.

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[APPLAUSE]

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