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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

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

I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!

I often say poetry was my first love.

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.