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There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it's about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.

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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

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I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

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Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

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It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.

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I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky.

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In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

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I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.

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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Poet

Born: August 20th, 1955

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