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Tonight, we celebrate
Marilyn Hacker's visit

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as the 2016 Hannelore
Quander-Rattee

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Works-in-Translation Reader.

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This is a
donor-supported reading

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that celebrates the
work of translation

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and the work of translators.

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We annually offer the
reading in the memory

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of Hannelore Quander-Rattee.

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Hannelore came to
Tucson, Arizona

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with her husband Michael
in 1978 and quickly became

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part of the poetry
scene here in Tucson.

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She was managing editor of
Prickly Pear Tucson, a poetry

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quarterly.

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She co-directed the
Mosaic Reading Series.

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She served on the Tucson
Poetry Festival committee.

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She was a member of the Bethesda
Players, a readers theater

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group that performed
Dylan Thomas's Under Milk

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Wood several times.

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During this time she
wrote her own poems.

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She translated work
from and into German.

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She was especially fond of
the work of Günter Eich.

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And working with the
poet William Pitt Root,

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she translated the
poems of Heinrich Böll.

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My job now is to introduce the
introducer of Marilyn Hacker.

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And it's my pleasure to welcome
Mary Wildner-Bassett to all

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of you, who's the dean of
the College of Humanities.

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Mary will return to the
faculty in German studies

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at the end of this
academic year.

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Over the past eight
years, she served

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admirably as the dean of
the College of Humanities.

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She's put up with people
like me as employees--

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impossible to manage,
very difficult.

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And under her leadership, the
Poetry Center, in particular,

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has consistently been
put in a position

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to thrive and to excel.

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And before she returns
to the faculty,

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I was excited to ask her to
introduce Marilyn, who she's

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very interested in as a
poet and as a translator.

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but to give you all a chance
to help me applaud her

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for her leadership,
for her friendship,

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and for her ongoing support
of the Poetry Center's mission

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and work, please help me
welcome Mary Wildner-Bassett

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and thank her.

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[APPLAUSE]

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