<font face="georgia,serif">Thank you for sending this, Andrew. <br><br></font><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Szymborska was incredible.<br><br>Best,<br>Rachelle<br clear="all">
</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">*****</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Rachelle Cruz,</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Host of "The Blood-Jet Writing Hour" Radio Show</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a style="font-family:georgia,serif" href="http://www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Gabriela Jauregui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabrielajauregui@gmail.com">gabrielajauregui@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all,<div>Yesterday was a very sad day, from Szymborska's death to Mike Kelley's untimely death as well. He was a pioneer in contemporary art, he was generous, hardcore, rigorous, and gave much to young californian artists and fellow artists of his generation too. He will be missed. He will be remembered.<br>
<div>from Mexico City with love,</div><div>Gabriela<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Juan F Herrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juan.herrera@ucr.edu" target="_blank">juan.herrera@ucr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Andrew Winer [<a href="mailto:andreww@ucr.edu" target="_blank">andreww@ucr.edu</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:RezaAslan@yahoo.com" target="_blank">RezaAslan@yahoo.com</a>; Nalo Hopkinson; Goldberry Long; 'susan straight'; 'Chris Abani'; Michael Jayme; Tom Lutz; Laila Lalami; Juan F Herrera; Christopher Buckley; Michael Ryan Davis; 'Stephen Ellis'; 'Emily Margaret Wells'; 'Ricardo Zamorano'; <a href="mailto:cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu" target="_blank">cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu</a>;
<a href="mailto:fatimafmirza@gmail.com" target="_blank">fatimafmirza@gmail.com</a>; Stephen E Cullenberg; Vorris Nunley; Traise Yamamoto; Perry Link<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Wislawa Szymborska<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">One of the modest giants of letters passed from the world yesterday. Here is one of her poems.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Andrew</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">NO TITLE REQUIRED</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">It has come to this: I'm sitting under a tree</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">beside a river</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">on a sunny morning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">It's an insignificant event</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">and won't go down in history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">It's not battles and pacts,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">where motives are scrutinized,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">or noteworthy tyrannicides.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">And yet I'm sitting by this river, that's a fact.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">And since I'm here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">I must have come from somewhere,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">and before that</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">I must have turned up in many other places,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">exactly like the conquerors of nations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">before setting sail.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Even a passing moment has its fertile past,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">its Friday before Saturday,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">its May before June.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Its horizons are no less real</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">than those that a marshal's field glasses might scan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">This tree is a poplar that's been rooted here for years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The river is the Raba; it didn't spring up yesterday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The path leading through the bushes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">wasn't beaten last week.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The wind had to blow the clouds here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">before it could blow them away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">And though nothing much is going on nearby,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">the world is no poorer in details for that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">It's just as grounded, just as definite</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">as when migrating races held it captive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Conspiracies aren't the only things shrouded in silence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Retinues of reasons don't trail coronations alone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Anniversaries of revolutions may roll around,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">but so do oval pebbles encircling the bay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The tapestry of circumstance is intricate and dense.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Ants stitching in the grass.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The grass sewn into the ground.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The pattern of a wave being needled by a twig.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">So it happens that I am and look.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Above me a white butterfly is fluttering through the air</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">on wings that are its alone,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">and a shadow skims through my hands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">that is none other than itself, no one else's but its own.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">When I see such things, I'm no longer sure</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">that what's important</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">is more important than what's not.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">~ Wislawa Szymborska ~</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">(Poems New and Collected 1957-1997,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh)</span></p>
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