chile 131-151?

Herrera p.141

“It just occurred to me, he is listening to crap talk---he is writing! The tattoo woman writes a few rows back. The guy in front cracks a notebook-stapled report. We are all writing poetry.”

In this quote, Herrera is saything that everythat we write is poetry. No matter how insignificant the wiriting seems to be, everything is poetry. Most people do not realize this, and just throw their writing aside.


Herrera p. 147

The whole “Letania para Jose Burciaga”

I really found this interesting. This whole poem is in Spanish. I do not know how mnay readers of this book also speak Spanish, but I am guessing it is not a lot. Most of the readers cannot read this poem at all, yet he still puts it in. For what reason?