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Dora Malech explores the violence of relationships...
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.1 | Boots! |
| 0:09.1 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.2 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.7 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we need without books? |
| 0:23.7 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:29.7 | Today, I am very happy to have this, my guest, Dora Malick. |
| 0:33.3 | She has written an extraordinary book of poems. It's called Say So. |
| 0:39.1 | It's a book about a relationship that includes violence and a certain amount of terror that begins in love. |
| 0:46.7 | And like all relationships, becomes a fantasy about where relationships go when you lose your say-so, when you don't have permission |
| 0:58.1 | to have your say-so. |
| 1:00.4 | And in that way, it's a book full of revelations about the secret self, why you stay in love |
| 1:10.8 | with someone who seems not to be saying, I love you |
| 1:13.7 | anymore. And it's so strong and beautiful and bizarrely musical and extraordinarily graceful |
| 1:23.6 | in its wordings. It seems as if the English language were a form of tongue twister or song lyric. |
| 1:31.9 | I thought it would be a good idea to begin with a poem that is a love poem, demonstrably so, before things grow sour. |
| 1:43.7 | This is the poem by my guest, Dora Malik, |
| 1:48.4 | when the relationship is still a smiling one. |
| 1:53.1 | Love poem. |
| 1:54.6 | If by truth you mean hand, then yes, |
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