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Thank you, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I read for almost an hour, but maybe we
have time for some questions, some comments
from the audience.
I really think it's--
poetry is a not a monologue I really believe--
this is my belief--
that poetry is incomplete.
All poems are incomplete.
That listener and the reader is the one
that is an accomplice that has to complete the poem.
So maybe we know this is a plea for some dialogue.
Any comments, any questions?
Yes?
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Well, I would say that the X in my name--
I have a poem about the X in my name
is a crossing of the illiterate self, that's
giving away a right to life.
Because the Indians what would do--
they didn't know how to read in Spanish.
And sometimes, by crossing, they gave away their lives.
The Mexicans in the Southwest, their lands
were taken from them, sometimes because they didn't
know what they were signing.
And so just this X.
Xochipilli will be my name.
The lord of the flowers, the patron saint of poetry.
But it's Javier.
Javier.
That's my middle name.
Any other questions?
Well, Thank you very much.
So I will be available for signing the books too, OK?
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