You are a human animal.

You are a very special reason.

Or you are the only animal.

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

Hello and welcome to Bookworm.

Today, my guest is David Muloof, the author most recently of and who can read. Hello and welcome to Bookworm.

Today, my guest is David Maloof, the author most recently of the conversations at Coral Creek.

He is the author as well of remembering Babylon, the book which won the first Impact Dublin Award,

which is the largest award for any single literary work offered internationally.

He is the author as well of Harlan's Half Acre, The Great World, Child's Play, The Bread of Time to Come.

His selected poems are available from A&R Modern Poets, and it's particularly the two most recent books that we'll be discussing,

but the process of work is a unified whole, really. It would be hard to talk about any of them

without referring to them all. I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm. I wanted to begin by talking to you

about the quality of silence in these books and how in books that are in fact were drunk. These are not,

you know, books that have accidental styles.

They're very considered styles.

Such a quality of silence and isolation manages to be communicated.

I'm always inclined to believe that we have some other form of communication than language and words.

I mean, we communicate by looks, by gestures.

And often in my books, people are most in communication when they're together, but not saying anything

to one another. The unspoken seems to me often to be very powerful and rich. But of course,

the writing itself has to find words for that silence. It has to find a way of articulating

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