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Ladies and gentlemen, bienvenue,
welcome. Yhank you for coming tonight.
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We are very, very lucky
to have as our reader...
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Roxeanne de Persand,
who, as you know...
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is a very fine poet
in her own right.
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And of course it takes a poet
to dojustice to the work of other poets.
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You also probably know, and if you don't,
you can read it in my introduction...
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Buy the book!
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that for these last decades, our women
poets have really come into their own.
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But they have been always with us.
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Right from Anne Bradstreet
in the 1 7th century, whose
beautiful poem of marital love...
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is one of those that Roxeanne
is going to read today.
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l have a question.
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l think it's probably better to have
questions after the poetry reading.
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- Come on. Let's go outside.
- We are planning to do that.
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It's very important that
l speak to her. It's urgent!
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l have as much right
to be here as anyone else.
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- Come on.
- More of a right.
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Yhis one's by Anne Bradstreet...
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and it's called...
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"Yo My Dear and Loving Husband."
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"If ever two were one,
then surely we.
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"If ever man were loved by wife...
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"then thee.
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"If ever wife was happy in a man...
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"compare with me...
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"ye women if you can.
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"Thy love is such...
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"l can no way repay.
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"Yhe heavens reward the manifold...
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- [Mouthing Words]
- "l pray.
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"Then while we live,
in love let's so persevere.