WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.410 align:middle line:90% [PAGE FLIPPING] 00:00:01.410 --> 00:00:02.820 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.820 --> 00:00:09.420 align:middle line:84% And I'll close with very short [CLEARS THROAT] sequence 00:00:09.420 --> 00:00:14.100 align:middle line:84% of excerpts from the final poem in this book, 00:00:14.100 --> 00:00:17.580 align:middle line:84% which involves moving, of course, across deserts, 00:00:17.580 --> 00:00:21.210 align:middle line:84% over mountains, finding headwaters, 00:00:21.210 --> 00:00:23.555 align:middle line:84% once one gets across the Continental Divide-- 00:00:23.555 --> 00:00:25.680 align:middle line:84% the question of what's the psychological equivalent 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:27.870 align:middle line:90% of a Continental Divide-- 00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:31.110 align:middle line:84% and by which you find your way to the ocean, 00:00:31.110 --> 00:00:36.630 align:middle line:84% and [CLEARS THROAT] is the ocean a place where equivalencies 00:00:36.630 --> 00:00:41.040 align:middle line:84% are ultimate, where some moral justice comes back 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:44.380 align:middle line:90% at you from the natural world? 00:00:44.380 --> 00:00:46.260 align:middle line:84% So [clears throat] what I'm going to do, 00:00:46.260 --> 00:00:49.150 align:middle line:90% you'll hear the numbers jump. 00:00:49.150 --> 00:00:52.450 align:middle line:84% There are 18 very brief sections. 00:00:52.450 --> 00:00:55.570 align:middle line:84% I'm just going to read about four or five of them. 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:57.700 align:middle line:84% So I'll just say number one and then number seven, 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:01.380 align:middle line:90% and then it's number 18. 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:07.594 align:middle line:84% And [clears throat] since this is the last one, 00:01:07.594 --> 00:01:12.970 align:middle line:84% I'll add just one more quote of Shakespeare's in which Antony 00:01:12.970 --> 00:01:14.900 align:middle line:90% says Cleopatra-- 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:16.900 align:middle line:84% it's interesting how the word necessity comes up 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:19.780 align:middle line:84% between men and women in crucial moments in these plays-- 00:01:19.780 --> 00:01:26.140 align:middle line:84% "hear me, queen, the strong necessity of time 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:30.280 align:middle line:90% commands our services awhile. 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:35.260 align:middle line:84% But my full heart remains in use with you." 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:37.780 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.780 --> 00:01:41.170 align:middle line:84% So that would be my validation, but here's a few sections 00:01:41.170 --> 00:01:44.635 align:middle line:90% from "Ocean." 00:01:44.635 --> 00:01:54.600 align:middle line:84% "One-- I left my face up there and went on 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:58.590 align:middle line:84% with the others over stones, weed, sand, road, 00:01:58.590 --> 00:02:01.380 align:middle line:84% tree trunk, hole, bridge, factory walls 00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:05.730 align:middle line:84% now darkening the bed, the mouths of pipes, 00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:09.780 align:middle line:84% old jetty stumps and pylons, green moss, 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:13.050 align:middle line:84% purple shredded outlets lengthening the drag 00:02:13.050 --> 00:02:17.340 align:middle line:84% where there could be remade a body. 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:23.040 align:middle line:84% Cities climbed high-throated toward others listening 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:24.720 align:middle line:90% if they were not at war. 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:27.920 align:middle line:90% 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:35.770 align:middle line:84% Seven-- and so it was such history. 00:02:35.770 --> 00:02:43.480 align:middle line:84% By night, when others buried off wormsong and ant, 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:47.500 align:middle line:84% come back now that you're hacking down the tree. 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:51.050 align:middle line:90% How are you spending it? 00:02:51.050 --> 00:02:52.570 align:middle line:90% Why else be terrified? 00:02:52.570 --> 00:02:55.830 align:middle line:90% 00:02:55.830 --> 00:03:01.090 align:middle line:90% 12-- what do you have to trade? 00:03:01.090 --> 00:03:05.820 align:middle line:90% 00:03:05.820 --> 00:03:10.005 align:middle line:84% What would you die for this far in the track? 00:03:10.005 --> 00:03:13.650 align:middle line:90% 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:18.900 align:middle line:84% I'm asking every rut and furrow, messenger. 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:23.800 align:middle line:90% 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:31.070 align:middle line:90% 15-- what of the unfolding rows? 00:03:31.070 --> 00:03:34.670 align:middle line:84% Four outer petals set against the night as 00:03:34.670 --> 00:03:37.430 align:middle line:84% yet unshadowed by the inside flower, 00:03:37.430 --> 00:03:42.860 align:middle line:84% the room transparent coraline, already turning back 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:46.756 align:middle line:84% [? to all ?] the hardened kings under it. 00:03:46.756 --> 00:03:50.060 align:middle line:90% Do not, it opens further. 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:56.020 align:middle line:90% Do not, weighing everything. 00:03:56.020 --> 00:04:05.100 align:middle line:84% 18-- when I set out, I thought of justice. 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:07.980 align:middle line:90% It was cold and fair. 00:04:07.980 --> 00:04:12.360 align:middle line:84% It was the color of consent, more shapely 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.019 align:middle line:84% than a flower or the sky forever opening 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:19.950 align:middle line:90% as we turn self-balancing. 00:04:19.950 --> 00:04:22.380 align:middle line:84% There were trees along the shore. 00:04:22.380 --> 00:04:26.580 align:middle line:84% Quick water lights glanced up and climbed the leaves 00:04:26.580 --> 00:04:29.230 align:middle line:90% till there were none. 00:04:29.230 --> 00:04:33.040 align:middle line:84% Even the poor grew ashen on the inside. 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:38.440 align:middle line:84% Even the poor let go of the sad investigations. 00:04:38.440 --> 00:04:42.400 align:middle line:84% One step away from nakedness on either side, 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:47.020 align:middle line:84% I walked on, following my version of the first blade 00:04:47.020 --> 00:04:51.310 align:middle line:84% cutting in this far, so that another voice could 00:04:51.310 --> 00:05:03.860 align:middle line:84% drop between the words, return, blind one, you blinded one." 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:04.400 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:07.450 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:07.450 --> 00:05:08.000 align:middle line:90%