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In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.
