![]() What’s something you’re particularly excited about with your new book? In that echo and its continuum, through other voices, other words, other languages, that’s where I think poetry stands companionly by us all and calls upon us to express it in our own ways. It was a personal language unlocked by American idioms and propelled by a portable urgency to speak out what kept echoing and never let up. Poetry began for me when I was able to give a speech at this tiny college about my family. I said hello to them every day and held onto them when my hands sweated. I absorbed words and voices that embodied them, as I stumbled to better my English and engage more in class. I missed family and familiar faces, but my curiosity was relentless. I ate clouds of longing and picked sorrowful sounds off tumbleweeds. It was my own echo I heard, amplified by the surrounding Sierras. I fell in love with American English in the Californian desert, where I started over in college. Tell us a little about yourself and your relationship to poetry.
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