Gabe, thank you very much for the introduction.
And for the very thoughtful reading.
I'm trying to figure out Tumblr.
Like, where did Tumblr happen in my body of work.
But I remember almost everything else.
But anyway, thank you, wonderful.
Thank you to the Poetry Center, to Tyler, to Diana,
to everyone at ALTA, and to Michael.
And thanks, everybody tonight for coming.
I'm a very good student.
I was told to read for 40 minutes.
So the clock starts in a few seconds.
But that will be just about what I'm going to do.
So I'm going to start with a work from a book of translation
that I translated a long time ago.
So this is from Raúl Zurita's "Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido,"
which I translated as "Song For His Disappeared Love."
It was originally written in Chile in 1985
in the heart of the Pinochet dictatorship
and published into English in 2010.
For those who are not familiar with Raúl's work,
Raúl was born in 1950, author of dozens of books,
most of which in some form or another are a response
to the experience of observing his country be destroyed
by the military dictatorship.
So I think it's helpful to think that this book came out
kind of right in the heart of what was going on.
And there's a certain risk to that.
So it's a book-length poem in many, parts
and I will read from a few of them.