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I want to read
one more new poem,

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and then I'll read a couple
of poems from The Bride of E.

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And then the poem I wanted to
read you is another erasure.

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I hope I can find it here.

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I did an erasure of
the first three cantos

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of my translation to
see what would happen.

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I may not be able to find it.

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You'll be in constant suspense.

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Here it is.

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And as I did it,
I put each canto

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which is anywhere from about 130
lines to 150 into eight lines.

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So there are two
four-line stanzas--

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part 1, two four-line
stanzas and part 2

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which, again,
represent the cantos,

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and I had in mind to
do the whole inferno,

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and so that reducing it down
like I had Mrs. Dalloway.

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And it seemed to be when
the poem got written,

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it seemed to be about a moment
of beginning like birth.

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And so you'll recognize some
of the elements at least

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in section 3 as having come
from the cantos I just read you.

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"At the moment of
beginning, a cage

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can be a body, part in the
night, quieted slightly.

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Mind, a stopped top.

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Clock, spring set,
hand in motion.

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The fact of the
hollow nothing head.

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How did we come to this?

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Inch by inch, I was born,
borrowed from the beast.

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I was now property in a country
where chain reigns the Empire

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City of I. Two, so the
empire, the breath, the legend

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of the well-guarded hell.

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One comes to tell you what you
should have done differently.

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I think I say, and I am not you.

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In the margin of fear, I heard
a woman convincing me to listen.

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Listen, she said, to the doctor.

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Three.

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The city before this
was nothing than dolls

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voices crying mama, mama, mama,
and swirl of sand and a storm.

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Nothing turns back.

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I saw fluttering, I
recognized in the distance.

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Out of nowhere, there
was red, the furnace

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and the beating heart,
camera flash with the scene."

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I actually think that's
probably a good place to end.

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So thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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