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Gabe, thank you very much
for the introduction.

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And for the very
thoughtful reading.

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I'm trying to figure out Tumblr.

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Like, where did Tumblr
happen in my body of work.

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But I remember almost
everything else.

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But anyway, thank
you, wonderful.

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Thank you to the Poetry
Center, to Tyler, to Diana,

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to everyone at ALTA,
and to Michael.

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And thanks, everybody
tonight for coming.

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I'm a very good student.

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I was told to read
for 40 minutes.

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So the clock starts
in a few seconds.

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But that will be just
about what I'm going to do.

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So I'm going to start with a
work from a book of translation

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that I translated
a long time ago.

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So this is from Raúl Zurita's
"Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido,"

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which I translated as "Song
For His Disappeared Love."

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It was originally
written in Chile in 1985

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in the heart of the
Pinochet dictatorship

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and published into
English in 2010.

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For those who are not
familiar with Raúl's work,

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Raúl was born in 1950,
author of dozens of books,

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most of which in some form
or another are a response

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to the experience of observing
his country be destroyed

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by the military dictatorship.

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So I think it's helpful to
think that this book came out

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kind of right in the heart
of what was going on.

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And there's a
certain risk to that.

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So it's a book-length
poem in many, parts

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and I will read
from a few of them.

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