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One of the things that I
really love is feedback.

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One of the things
I really love--

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well, maybe a little more.

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One of the things I love about
teaching at this MFA program

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is it doesn't really
have an aesthetic.

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You can see such
a range of voices

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and like ideas about essays
and poetry and being a writer

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that I just like--

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it blows me away to
hear you all tonight.

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Fantastic.

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And I know you're all
wondering what class

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our last adventurer of
the night, Margo Steines,

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is: a barbarian, a fierce
warrior who can enter a battle

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rage, unbridled,
unquenchable, the unrelenting

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assault of a storm, the
churning turmoil of the sea--

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like Brutalities, her first,
surprisingly unbarbaric book,

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well, mostly unbarbaric.

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I mean, it's kind of
mostly restrained and able

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to look at self,
even if it hurts.

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But you can see that
other something,

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a power simmering way down
there below the finely

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crafted sentences.

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And full disclosure, some
people are absolutely,

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definitely getting
punched in the face.

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So this is not a
book for the weak.

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Barbarians like Margo draw from
a well of primal physicality,

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have uncanny reflexes and an eye
for the deeply weird territories

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of the human body, and
the even less knowable

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realms of the mind.

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Barbarians are known for
their power, their endurance,

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and their artful
interiority, and are

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known to perform great
feats of essaying, strength,

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and human caring.

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They thrive in the wilds
of their homelands, Hawaii,

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New York, Tucson, the human
body, the human family,

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the steely, elegant,
ferocious sentence.

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Inside every settled
self of a barbarian,

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however, there is a storm.

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Her primary ability is
strength, but also wisdom.

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I would suggest you
do not piss her off.

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Please welcome Margo Steines.

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