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At the Terrace Lounge
of Student Union

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to meet Mr. Howard
following tonight's

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reading, with the usual
brownies and punch.

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Who's there the punch
or the brownies.

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In two weeks from
tonight, October 9th,

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Denise Levertov will read in
the Modern Languages Auditorium.

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I would advise you come
early if you want a seat.

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I'm sorry we had to move to
this ugly auditorium tonight,

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but obviously it was necessary.

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We couldn't have all
squeezed into the other room.

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You've come to hear Richard
Howard tonight as a poet,

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but I would like to
tell you a little bit

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about his other accomplishments.

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He's the poetry editor
of the American Review.

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He is one of the best
known critics in America.

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You may be familiar
with his book Alone

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with America, which is 41
essays on the art of poetry

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in the United States.

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He has translated from the
French more than 100 works,

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including the memoirs
of General De Gaulle.

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He's a teacher, critic,
editor, and smashing cook.

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He has published four
volumes of poetry,

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Findings, Quantities,
The Damages,

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and Untitled Subjects, which was
the 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner.

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It's my pleasure to introduce
you, Mr. Richard Howard.

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As I've said to some of you
when I've been in your classes

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or talking to you, in the
few days that I've been here,

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the poems that I write
and that I wish to write

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are heard by me.

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They're heard as voices.

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Sometimes they are
overheard as voices.

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And increasingly, I hear more
than one voice in the poem.

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Voices in conflict,
voices in confrontation.

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And I shall read one of the new
poems particularly concerned

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with this double audition.

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A poem from the new series
called "Two-Part Inventions."

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But I'll begin with
two other poems.

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One indeed in an overheard
voice and one in what I supposed

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to be my voice, my own voice.

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I hope it will be clear
that the voice you hear

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as someone else's is as truthful
and sincere as the voice

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that you hear supposedly
as mine is mendacious

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and possibly altogether a lie.

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There is no telling,
there is only telling.

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