--Lounge and The Veil.
I'm happy to say that The Incognito Lounge is going
to be back in print this fall.
It's being reissued by Carnegie Mellon, so--
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He's also published the novels Angels, Fiskadoro,
Stars at Noon, Resuscitation of the Hanged Man,
and, just this year, the collection
of short stories, Jesus' Son.
He's also been on a number of gut-wrenching journalistic
assignments to guerrilla camps in the Philippines
and Liberia, some little known elements to Denis's career.
And over the period of the last 10 or 12 years,
he's turned out an absolutely stunning series of books
that we all admire a great deal, so we're
very happy to welcome him back to the home
state of The Incognito Lounge.
Please welcome Denis Johnson.
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Can you hear me?
I know you can hear that.
Can you hear me?
If my voice gets lower, which it seems to do,
just wave your arms in the back there, or wherever
it is that you can't hear, and I'll see if I can't do
something about it.
Was somebody waving their arms?
I don't know.
It's tough to know what to read, actually.
Most places I go, people are not aware that I've written poems,
but in Tucson they seem to know.
And it's actually the Poetry Center
that is sponsoring this, so let me read some poetry, anyway.
I'll start out with an Arizona poem.