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Interview with Edward Vidaurre

Published 2015-04-11.
Who are your favorite authors?
My favorite authors vary. I fall in love with literature often. But I do find myself returning to Leonard Cohen, e.e. Cummings, Richard Wright, Anne Sexton, Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, an array of Chicano writers and the usual suspects: the beats.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
My daughter definitely. My ambition to grow as a poet and look for inspiration in everything I see, feel, hear and touch.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
Reading, working (mostly), hanging out with friends and family, planning poetry readings and day dreaming.
How do you discover the ebooks you read?
It's new to me, I still have a love for paper books, but ebooks have that something that is making me want to discover.
What is your writing process?
It starts with the title of a poem or a phrase and then I dig and dig and let the words spill out.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
The book that inspired me to read, "Manchild in the Promised Land" by Claude Brown. It was the beginning of my love affair with books.
How do you approach cover design?
I live in a town with many great artists, I also love photography and illustration and try to see if I can create something that is fit for a cover before approaching my publisher for their thoughts on it.
What do you read for pleasure?
I read poetry. I study words for inspiration
What is your e-reading device of choice?
my daughters ipad.
Describe your desk
messy with stacks of books, blank pages and cold coffee.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in East Los Angeles. It inspired my first collection "I Took My Barrio On A Road Trip" by Slough Press in 2013
What's the story behind your latest book?
I write poetry that is extremely personal, sometimes painful, with a bit of hope. Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems is about love--for my daughter, my wife, and my family. It's about music and dreams and my struggles with the darkness that comes from losing my dad, etc.
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Books by This Author

Insomnia: Love Poems by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,810. Language: English. Published: April 19, 2015 by El Zarape Press. Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Death
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Poems written under the influence of insomnia: that dreamlike state of lust, love, and loss, anger and abandon, with playfulness and academic tones. Insomnia, rouses us with a twitch and spilt coffee jerk and lulls us with knowing nods to those moments of clarity and opaqueness, of sweetness and acrimony, of haunting realism that can't help but keep us awake for just one more poem.
Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,070. Language: English. Published: May 22, 2015 by El Zarape Press. Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Death
Beat poetry about love, loss, and hope, with an introduction by Beat scholar Dr. Robert Earl Johnson, Jr. This is the third collection of poetry by Edward Vidaurre, an emerging voice in Beat and Latino poetry. Includes photographs and sketches.