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We invite you to come to the
Terrace Lounge of the Student

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Union following tonight's
reading to meet Mr. Gunn.

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The Terrace Lounge is in the
upper level in the west end

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of the Student Union.

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I'm happy to announce that
we have added another poet

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since the schedule was printed.

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Two weeks from tonight,
Denise Levertov

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will read in this auditorium.

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[CLAPPING]

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's October the 18th.

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We're very happy to have a
poet tonight whom we have long

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sought to come visit.

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Thom Gunn spelled
with a T-H-O-M.

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Our poster-makers spelled
it with a T-O-M. Somewhere,

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there's 200 great posters
that might be collector's item

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someday.

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Mr. Gunn is a native
of Kent in England.

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He's lived in San Francisco
for the last 12 years.

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First came to the United
States as a student

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at Stanford University in 1954.

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I'd like to read a quote
from Edwin Muir writing

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on Mr. Gunn's book called
The Sense of Movement.

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"He states afresh and with
great force questions which

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have troubled poets and
thinkers in all ages,

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but he is aware of them as
existing now in his life

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and he contributes something
new to the old debate."

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Mr. Gunn is a very
prolific writer.

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I am not going to read
all of his publications

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but I would like to
mention some of them.

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Most familiar to you might be
The Sense of Movement and My

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Sad Captains.

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Touch is his most
recent publication.

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And in March, Farrar, Strauss
and Giroux will bring out Moly.

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It's my pleasure to introduce
to you Mr. Thom Gunn.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.