[APPLAUSE]
Well, I'm delighted to be here.
And thank you so much for that really lovely introduction.
And thank you also especially to Tyler and Paola
at the Poetry Center, and to Michael Spurgeon
of the Borchard Foundation, who has been so generous.
And a special shout out to Alison Hawthorne Deming,
who has just made my trip super special.
So it's been a treat to see her and to get
to know everybody here.
I've never been to Tucson before.
It's a fabulous city.
You're all very lucky.
So thank you for welcoming me.
I originally intended to read just
from my most recently published translation, the novel,
You Dreamed of Empires, by the Mexican writer, Álvaro Enrigue.
But as I thought it over, I realized
that this was an excellent opportunity
to read a sampling of work.