--and bilingual poetry even less.
And they had never done poetry, and they had never
published bilingual poetry.
But I insisted.
I said, no, but it's important that millions of children
in this nation that are bilingual,
and we should be doing bilingual books for them.
And so Chula Book Press of San Francisco
came out with this collection.
And to tell the truth, the first year,
they sold about 35,000 copies.
So it was a big success.
And my first poem--
"I Believe in Poetry,"--
that few words can say a lot.
The poem goes--
"A poem makes us see everything for the first time.
Un poema nos hace ver todo por primera vez."
And I really believe that.