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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.

From KCRW and KCRW.com,

I'm Michael Silverblatt,

and this is Bookworm.

I found a book

so haunting

and so original

that I can't wait

to tell my listeners

about it.

In my case, this book by my guest, Anne Carson, who is a poet,

this book was also useful to me so that anyone who asks what is the use poetry, will have that question answered in the course

of this show.

The book is called Knox.

It is an extraordinarily special book.

With us is Robert Curry, who has worked with Anne in designing this book, and he is her

randomizer in the sense that he has taken texts and brought them into other forms, dance and light and projection. And in this case, a text that was a

notebook about the death of a brother. The brother's name is Michael and Anne did grief work. Michael had run away in, when was it, Anne?

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