Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

What I want you to notice first of all is the kind of reader that's being invoked here for that modernist classic Ulysses.

首先希望你们注意到的是,所有开始阅读现代主义经典,《尤利西斯》的读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nabokov cannot meet his reader on the misty mountain ; because somebody has to agree to publish this book first; it has to exist in the world before that reader can meet it.

然而纳博科夫却不能在这座巅峰上与他的读者相遇,因为在那之前必须有人先同意出版那本书;,在读者遇到那座山峰之前，它必须首先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And when you come to read it, what you're putting yourself in my position, as it were, and you are partaking of precisely the same activity as I "the first writer-reader" was.

而当你阅读时，换句话说，当你代替了我的角色时，你的阅读活动其实和我这个,第一个作者与读者的活动相同。

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