Joseph Rios
Dec 05, 2017
2 minutes
Omnidawn Publishing
I am the American, güey —from “Southpaw Curse”
It was a long while before I started thinking about a book. Willie Perdomo helped me with that at a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation workshop. That’s when I found my alter ego, Josefo.] and Zbigniew Herbert’s and fell in love with the notion of characters living full lives inside poems. It’s a thin veil, of course, but it worked for me. I was able to hide behind this character that looked and sounded like me, had the same memories and experiences as me, but was allowed to live apart from me.
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