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It's a pleasure for
me to read here.

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I was very, very warmly
received, both by the weather

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and by my hosts here.

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Thank you very much.

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I will read, perhaps in
the paradoxical order,

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starting with new poems,
some new translations,

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then in the middle
of my reading,

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I will read two
very short essays.

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I like to call
them like something

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between aphorism and essays.

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And then I will
end with some poems

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from Tremor, from
my English book.

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So now some new poems.

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This one is translated by Renata
Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry,

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who is sort of helping Renata.

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"Vacation."

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"Dark is this summer's hair.

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Beach leaves are tense like the
strings of a child's violin.

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Rain, lost in the long drain
pipes of a village church,

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noisily weeps.

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Young Rembrandt, still unafraid,
looks at us from a postcard.

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The sea lashes at
rocks with such force

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that somebody mutters,
this means war.

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Yesterday, sun evaporated
from the bricks.

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Two cyclists, unrecognizable
under stiff capes,

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traversed the bridge.

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Green lightnings of katydids
glisten in the garden.

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Warm asphalt hambly
steams, as if a barber

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had placed shaving bowls on it.

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You sigh with relief.

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It is only the worried
pilgrims coming home.

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They carry the spiced bread of
oblivion, exultation silence."

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