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--here and good evening.

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In the case of poetry,
it is necessary

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that the artist not
only be receptive

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to the terrifying irrational
language of his or her

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imagination, but
also to the stutter

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of the wild outside world.

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To hear these transmissions in
their simplicity and profundity

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has required, in this century,
a concentration and intensity

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of a very high order.

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Follow this evening,
if you will,

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what is achieved when
that consciousness

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is of a high moral order,
and of a beauty that

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breaks your heart open?

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I believe it is only by
way of an original style

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that we are addressed--

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so undressed, and taken
deepest into ourselves,

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and farthest from ourselves.

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Stravinsky, Man Ray, Marquez,
Stein, Crane, Stevens, Joyce,

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Virginia Woolf--

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these are stylists who may well
be within Jorie Graham's reach,

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as one looks upon her
poetic achievement to date.

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What they share is that mystery
unfolds in their thinking.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
someone whose friendship

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has been, for me, amazing.

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Please welcome Jorie Graham.

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[APPLAUSE]

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