Julia Alvarez
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, I never left poetry because that has always been my first love.
So it's always where I...
Drew the curtains, and I belong to myself alone.
I love that.
Because once you get to be, you know, writing novels, people are just kind of drumming their fingers for when you're going to have a poetry book.
Okay, but, you know.
You know, your publisher, everybody can get a little nervous.
But it's almost an indulgence to go back.
And some of these poems are poems that I've been writing all along.
So several, three decades old, some of them.
But revised draft after draft.
And some more recent.
And I think it's, you know, the...
Civil rights activist Ruby Sales has this quip where she says, you know, old age ain't for sissies.
It's no fun.
You know, you lose your sight.
Your teeth come out.
Your hair.