ray armandtrout. for much of her lengthy career, she has talked a skeptical eye at the american language. it wasn t the music of words that aroused her suspicions. it was their capacity to sneak in political slab under the radar but her poems certain as she has said to focus on capitalism into consciousness have nothing of the ideological all monitor about. .. she is similarly ambivalent about the very idea of metaphor. on one hand it strikes her as an endless series. an integer, metaphor is a ritual sacrifice that kills the look alike. yet her on poems are constructed out of marvelous yet strictly arranged bits of language and we are more or less start with the mesh of near approximation. she asks, what if there were a hidden calling one thing by another s name. no, but there is. doctors need only immerse themselves. we congratulate her on the award. [applauding] thank you for that introduction. this is great. thank you, and unknown book cri i m brought a little somethin