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So the main thing going on
tonight is that Heriberto Yépez

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going to read for us and
show a little bit of video.

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We usually have two
presenters and we

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came up empty this
time, as Pablo Toledo's

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in Spain screening his film and
wasn't to be able to be here.

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So three of us are
going to read just

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for about five minutes each.

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You know, just to
kind of make friendly.

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And then we'll
take a small break

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and Heriberto's going to
read about half an hour

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and show about 10 minutes of
video, so that's the deal.

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I'm going to read
first, I guess and I'll

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try to keep it really short
with two or three things

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from the book-length poem I
just finished a while ago,

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called Home on the Range.

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And my good news is
that Leslie Scalapino

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is going to publish it with O
Books at the end of next year.

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So that's good.

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All right.

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So this is second time--

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[LAUGHTER]

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I want to go about
five or six minutes.

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So this is section 60, I'll
just read a couple sections

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in a row, and we'll
see where we are.

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So grammatical and
continuous thread,

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the genius of
translation is necessary,

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the original connected with
worries, disappointment,

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disobedience, clingings
of the divine,

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no hankerings speak of
these passing characters,

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replace the present
with utmost rapidity.

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Turtle in a wind tunnel,
deer's ribbon streaming,

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don't count on it, your
head turned into cement

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and dissolved, it was very nice.

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Always seek something inward
or outward from a distant place

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return to emptiness.

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I have come from Indians,
will you kindly--

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inability to express
rain, a pocket gopher that

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scurried across the
road, grack or whatever

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of the big fast road runner.

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Your smile or
excoriating word or body.

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Thought- instants woven
around the original

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with no thought for the morrow,
apart from their breathing

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cars.

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It's OK, thump and whir of
wheels and of the sun's breath

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in tandem, tiny cortical
capillaries, through which

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the turtle broods.

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Clean your mouth
filth you thereby

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breathe, which is fearsome.

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Adultery, theft that goes on
in the name of naturalism,

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brushwork abounding, all
along the edge and inside it.

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Outside, I have not
lost my friend, no, sir.

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All arguing is
taking in the fire,

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systematic boiling cauldron,
no to all our questions

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ordinarily understood.

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Nature is becoming
not like this, there

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is nothing in a definite
locale before seeing,

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there is no seeing at
all the path of birth

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yet there is nothing,
it is evident.

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But we cling, hoping to
separate out attachment.

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Thinking means does
this seeing take place?

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61.

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The door opened it began
to happen, really bad.

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I insisted too: the lovers,
sporting event, do better.

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I'm not going to let
the stiff thread happen.

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Wasp-- wasp walks on the
palo verde's smallest twig,

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broom tries choking the cholla.

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Same blue sky over the house's
wall of pale cream brick.

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A hawk soars over,
it's a turkey vulture.

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Something had died,
leaving one small lie.

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She handed him the information.

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He pulled the sun
and released the sky.

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Everything was that
signpost, her careful notes

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a kind of marker.

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What's the mystery?

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Ron on the bus catching odd
details about lots of people.

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What's that tree, leaves turning
a wrong yellow, bee's gone.

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He was sure that Alf had lied.

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No to Beth's nothing, not likely
under theirs from time to time.

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Pale blue, paler green,
bleached purple, pale pink.

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Who am I?

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Warning call filling the mind.

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He wished he had
anything, pushed it away:

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machine, odds filling the
room, a man packed up.

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I can put his mind in a bag,
inside the bag everything

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gets recreated, a whole world
of sound and color and form,

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all five skandas are--
butter the muffin!

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Miami?

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Then take the trick: his
lips swaying in the ground,

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the arm clearly nothing.

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There's little I don't know, but
that's the experiments of boys.

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still squeezing me
beside the opener,

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giving him, came up
again, was too measured.

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All three, but
first of the three,

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got what he for a few years.

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Peter thought Jimmy would
like that, drawer to his left

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flaunted that thing.

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Bars.

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He'd given his son
his nephew in return.

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And this one more, 62.

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Day adapted this
jonquil blossom.

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This makes no difference.

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Trailing along to your
graves, trimmed grass and here

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are the bees again, Hello.

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Kuan Yin's clock, tick-tock,
buzz and ratcheted

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hum counting highly
variable time signatures

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till everything
swarms that's time.

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Balanchine moved the
phrase around the stage,

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the time that is, until
it happened differently,

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in any place in a moment.

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Now here now over there,
a syncopated, chordal now.

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That's how it is with
the stillness seeping up

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through it.

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It's OK, you're dead then.

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We go away and absolutely
open and why are we not--

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our hands.

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because it is hot.

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and little screens, curtains,
let us take brightly.

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motion is so fast!

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call her inside the bag,
where trees shimmer,

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a white cat walks with
boa tail swished erect.

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E puts her hand on the
door, but where are you?

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The bag is breathing now.

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March the 13th explore some
makes March as an object,

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patently, she saw.

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by the seashore.

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where?

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winrows again, lion
who perhaps had

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batted at a stop, a
kite out of the sky

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to play with, this is an odd
dream of habitation, your face

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dissolving now pore by pore.

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When you talk you
talk to yourself.

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I believe the bag is dissolving.

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How do you do.

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mistaken.

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a danger, a recalled pleasure.

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she let fall a matter,
a hinge, a sentence

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which is red at night,
currants, women, name, a noun.

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Mother is it strange that
you've become Guan Yin?

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Is it strange father?

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The weather.

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she shuts the sky, but she sees
woods, grasses, caress morning

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a year of alas, dark in color.

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remember more sky.

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Can a cow keep Louisiana?

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Can you prefer?

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That is not Italian.

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I bless the cow, your
words, I thank you enough,

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make this arrangement
stare and stare.

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Suns are often happy, and
palms of electricity house,

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how tenderly, the season,
covered and aroused.

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It's out.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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