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I'm delighted to introduce
Carl Marcum to you.

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Carl was born in Nogales,
grew up in Tucson,

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went to Salpointe school, did
his undergraduate work here

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and his MFA here, went
on to distinguish himself

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as a Stegner fellow at
Stanford, and during his time

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there, this wonderful
book of his Cue Lazarus

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was accepted by the
University of Arizona Press.

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Carl is extremely
good-natured about admitting

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the rough time we had when
he took his first poetry

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course from me.

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I guess I was
pretty hard on you,

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but it paid off in the long run.

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Carl has written a
poetry that I think

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is very new and very exciting,
and he does something

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which is extremely hard to do--

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which is he combines formal
and aesthetic invention

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with a sense of politics
and a sense of history.

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But it's not a didactic sense.

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It's a sense of really
exploring the mystery

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and the unknown of identity
through looking at history.

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So I'm excited
about Carl's work,

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and I'm very pleased to
have you come and celebrate

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with us the publication
of his book, which

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came out last February, March.

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And so we're way overdue
to welcome him back,

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and we thank him for coming.

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So he'll be reading
from this book, as well

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as some new poems, so
please welcome back

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to Tucson, Carl Marcum.

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[APPLAUSE]

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