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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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We're glad you're here.

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And we're also glad
that you braved the rain

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or whatever weather
circumstances you

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had to deal with to get here.

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Allen arranged to have the sun
totally come out after noon

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today, so you win if he wins.

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And so he said a
mostly rainy Arizona,

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which is relatively atypical
let's say for this time of year

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and so we're excited to
show him some sunshine

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which he will get for
the next few days.

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So thank you all for being
here for Tucson to come.

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I just have some
quick notes to say

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and I'll introduce
our introducer tonight

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and then we'll move on
into the presentation.

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And to introduce Allen, I'm
going to just quickly orient

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you to my friend
Russ Kick who will

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introduce Allen more properly.

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Russ Kick among many
other books is the editor

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of the three volume 1600
page set called The Graphic

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Canon: The World's
Great Literature

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as Comics and Visuals.

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More recently Kick has
edited The Graphic Canon

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of Children's Literature, as
well as the collection Death

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Poems: Classic, Contemporary,
Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking,

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Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny,
Spiritual, aesthetic, sorry,

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Atheistic not aesthetic,
Uncertain, Personal, Political,

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Mythic--

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It would be
interesting if it was

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aesthetic, but troublesome--

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Political, Mythic, Earthy,
and Only Occasionally Morbid.

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An entire collection
dedicated to poems that deal

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with the topic of the deceased,
an anthology of poetry

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about the only
other certain thing

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for all of us besides taxes.

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Russ personally told
me at dinner tonight

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that he has no
intention of ever making

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an anthology about taxes.

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This is the only certain
anthology that will ever exist.

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Please help me welcome Russ
who will introduce Allen.

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Thanks everyone, for being here.

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[APPLAUSE]