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Boots!

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today is the fulfillment of a long-awaited promise.

The poet David Trinidad, who was born in Los Angeles,

is here to read from and talk about his book,

Swinging on a Star.

David and I have tried to tape the show before,

and now at last a a good 20 years later, yes?

Yes, more than that, actually.

Here we are, which is just to show you, it's one of the themes of the show.

Time brings all things, and his most recent book of his own poetry is called

Swinging on a Star. Now tell me the names of your other books, David. Some of the titles are

Monday Monday, Dear Prudence, New and Selected Poems, Answer Song, Plasticville.

So, in other words, you've used songs as the titles for your book.

And swinging on a star, I know because it's an Academy Award-winning song from Bing Crosby's movie

Going My Way.

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