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When I started this.

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Good evening, everyone.

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We welcome tonight a truly
international writer,

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one whose work has taken
her not only between Mexico

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and the United States, but to
Asia, South America, and Europe

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to do her own writing.

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Support the writing of others.

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Other times to join
together with others

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in platica, conversation,
made all the more pleasurable,

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I'm sure, by the makeup and
the background of the audience

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to whom she's speaking.

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What do I mean by that?

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I'm thinking of what it means
for the English language

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publishing world and
even the world of cinema

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to remain so steadfast against
other dominant narratives.

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Writers like Brenda Lozano help
us understand that no culture

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or country is central.

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Indeed, no history is either.

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The more we open ourselves
to how stories are told

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and how we receive
them, the hope

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is we preserve and refine
language altogether.

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By testing expressions
against each other

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and ponder the places where the
untranslatable exists and still

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manages to tell us something.

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That word untranslatable,
I'm stealing it

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from this really wonderful
introductory essay to Brenda

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Lozano's which is available
over there on that table

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by her translator,
Heather Cleary, which

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invites us to think about
not only untranslatable words

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and phrases, but
how many of them

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exist in our considerations
of gender and misogyny.

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At the heart of
this book's split

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narratives are a journalist,
Zoe, and a community healer,

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Feliciana, and how these
two lives in the world

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shed light on the
character of Paloma.

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That's what you'll
learn about if you

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read this book, whose
murder is traced

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through this narrative not
as a suspense narrative,

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but as one that
reveals something

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to us about the dark nature
of knowledge and secrets

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and the preciousness
of what we're

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able to pass on to each other.

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So yes, this is a
book about violence.

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It's violence of body
and of community,

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but it is also cognizant
of the potential healing

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of that violence through
language, struggling

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to find the words that must
document and witness rather

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than suppress.

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So beautiful line in
this book, and it'll

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give you an indication of what
you have in store tonight.

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Quote, ''Even as two people
try to understand each other

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in the same tongue, they can't.

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One person understands one
thing and the other person

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understands something else.

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And that is why the language
is as broad and as vast

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as the present.''

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This evening invites
us to think about what

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is translatable
between cultures,

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between experiences, between
ages, the differences made

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visible by the power, and
the service of translation.

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For this evening, we thank
the poetry center as always,

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the creative writing program
and the English Department,

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and most especially the Borchard
Foundation that Tyler mentioned

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earlier, the center on literary
arts and their mission that I

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want to say one
more time, quote,

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''Create a community of literary
artists from across the Americas

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to foster meaningful connections
between people, culture,

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and the natural world.''

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So on behalf of
everyone here in Tucson,

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una bienvenida to Brenda Lozano.

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[APPLAUSE]

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