I often say poetry was my first love.

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• Luis Alberto Urrea:

  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

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  I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I

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  My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they

• Luis Alberto Urrea:

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• Luis Alberto Urrea:

  It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of disease

• Luis Alberto Urrea:

  Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sau

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• Luis Alberto Urrea:

  I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on