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So I'm going to read two
poems from the new manuscript

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and then I have the last
one will be from here.

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So this is--

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I hope I don't
mess up this order.

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This is from the new manuscript.

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It's called Red Work, and
it's a collection of poems

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and little essays and
also visual poems.

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I don't know if you can--

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Let me see if I can show one.

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So I've got a lot of
embroidery work in this one.

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Here's one.

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It's a big piece,
but this is just

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a copy of the embroidery work.

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So all the embroidery
work is done in red.

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And so this is just
one of the pieces.

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The new book is called Red Work.

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The new manuscript
it's not a book yet.

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But this is one of
the poems from there.

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It's called "Anatomy of Fire."

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"The last time I shot a gun
was the night my father told me

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he should have killed my
mother when he had the chance.

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I buried my father that night,
write the last poem for him,

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leave it burning where he lay.

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We do not leave each other.

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Here is the tiny pulsing
gene dancing in his blood

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as genes do.

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It does not question itself.

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He does not question himself.

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Warrior, weapon,
the battlefield,

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I have inherited my father.

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Firing pin, pin
caught in my throat

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or in the tips of my fingers.

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And the only thing between
me and fire is this skin that

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cannot hide its triggers.

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I need not hold a
gun to your head.

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I need only touch my own face."

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