Mexican - Poet | August 20, 1955 -
I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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I often say poetry was my first love.
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.
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I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.
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My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.
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Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.
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It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.
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Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.
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The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
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I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.
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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.
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