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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hello and welcome to Bookworm. I'm Michael Silverbladden today. I'm happy to have as my guest,

Anne Lauderback, whose collection, if in time, which is a selected poems of her work from

1975 to 2000 to currently, has just come out

in paperback from Penguin. The collection contains poems from all of her earlier books,

beginning with many times but then, which was published in 1979,

before recollection from 1987,

Clammer from 1991,

and, for example, from 1994,

and on a stair from 1996.

There's a selection of new poems called The Call that date from 1997 to 2000,

and I immediately plan to ask Anne Lauderback, whose poems deal with transiency

and the constantly shifting relations between the eye and the other between objects in a field,

what it feels like within her aesthetic

to have all of these poems together in a big book?

Well, it's a wonderful question.

It actually feels confusing and a little bit painful, partly because I put the collection together pretty much on my own.

And the process of deleting things, taking things away, was curiously difficult for me and has become a kind of haunting.

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