Why I don't write children's literature
Subtitle: (and other stories)
By: Gary Soto
Publisher: ForeEdge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781611687118
Subjects: American essays
Description: "Gary Soto is a poet and, in a previous writing life, an author of children's literature. Moreover, he is an essayist whose works have been celebrated for their openness and vivid image-making. In this volume, the poet again offers prose that is robust, confessional, and peculiar in its observations. Soto's world is quirky, here captured in a series of bite-sized narratives full of humor and insight. He befriends daffodils, praises theater and tribute bands, and snuggles up with his wife of almost forty years. Like many boomers, he laments his sense of failure. LIke them, he shrugs off that failure to recast his remaining years"--Back cover.